“His Political Career Began Just 20 Years Ago,” says Nitish in New Attack on Shah
GG News Bureau
Patna, 13th Oct. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar fired another salvo at Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, saying he didn’t care about insults hurled by those whose political careers began only 20 years ago.
Kumar made the remark in response to journalist questions about Shah’s statement in Sitab Diyara, Jayaprakash Narayan’s ancestral village, that “disciples” of the socialist leader are now sitting in the “lap of Congress” for the sake of power.
“The one whose name you people are taking, did he have any first-hand knowledge of what JP stood for? We had earned our spurs in the JP movement (of 1974). I do not want to attach any importance to those whose political career began just 20 years ago,” said the JD(U) leader who split with the BJP two months ago.
“But, yes, they have got a shot at power right now. And the media highlights them a lot. All English newspapers in Delhi have prominently carried his diatribe about me. But I could not care less,” said Nitish Kumar, the longest-serving chief minister of Bihar.
He was also questioned about a Facebook post by Sanjay Jaiswal in which the state BJP president slammed the Mahagathbandhan government for failing to deliver on Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s promise of 10 lakh jobs.
“Who is he? I cannot make out about whom you are talking,” the JD(U) leader remarked, eliciting laughter from senior party colleagues who had accompanied him to a public park in the city named after Ram Manohar Lohia, which the CM visits on the socialist ideologue’s death anniversary.
“Why don’t you ask him how long it’s been since he left the RJD?” Kumar suggested, with a mischievous grin.
Jaiswal, who is serving his third consecutive term from the Pashchim Champaran Lok Sabha seat, began his political career in 2005, when he ran unsuccessfully in the assembly elections on an RJD ticket.
He joined the BJP in 2009, just before the general election. Madan Jaiswal, his father, was a senior BJP leader and multiple-term MP from Bettiah, which has since been abolished and is now covered by Pashchim Champaran.
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