Nitish joined hands with Congress, RJD for his PM ambitions: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has joined hands with the Congress and the RJD after dumping the BJP for realising his Prime Ministerial ambitions which he keeps having every three yearsAddressing a rally at Lauria in West Champaran district the senior BJP leader claimed that the JDU supremo has agreed to make RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav the next chief minister and asserted that he should announce when he intends to do soShah who was speaking in Balmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency charged Kumar with plunging Bihar into jungle raj for which the latter used to blame the previous Congress and RJD rule and that the BJP was now disgusted with the former allys flip flops and its doors are closed foreverAfter fighting his entire life since the days of Jay Prakash Narayan against the Congress and jungle raj Nitish Kumar has now sat on the lap of Lalu Prasad the pioneer of jungle raj and at the feet of Sonia Gandhi He has become avsarwaadi opportunist from being vikaswaadi prodevelopment for his Prime Ministerial ambitions he saidEnough of Aaya Ram Gaya Ram the BJPs doors are closed forever for Nitish Kumar he saidShah likened the JDUs alliance with the RJD to attempts at mixing oil with waterWater and oil cannot blend So here we have the RJD like oil rising to the surface and the JDU like water disappearing beneath said Shah in an indirect reference to apprehensions that Kumars party was getting overshadowed by the domineering new allyHe also alleged that at the time of forming the alliance last year the JDU leader had entered into a clandestine agreement with Prasad the RJD supremo to make his son Tejashwi Yadav the chief ministerThis has led to a lot of confusion in the JDU itself said Shah indirectly referring to the recent exit of Upendra KushwahaAlso Read Aim must be to win all 48 Maharashtra Lok Sabha seats Shah tells BJP workersDoubts have emerged in peoples minds too If he Kumar has struck such a deal he should make public the date on which he intends to hand over the charge to his deputy and plunge the state into jungle raj which he had vowed to root out Shah saidThe Union home minister recalled that the BJP had won far greater number of seats in the last assembly polls than the JDU but Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept up his promise to back Kumar for another term in officeShah who is widely regarded as the BJPs principal strategist said Nitish and Lalu cannot pull Bihar out of the vortex of backwardness It is high time that the BJP formed its own government in the state with full majority The tone can be set in the next Lok Sabha pollsThe Union home minister also made a reference to central assistance provided to the state by the Narendra Modi government claiming that it far outweighed the support received by Bihar during the rule of Congressled UPA in which Lalu Prasad was himself a ministerNitish Kumar cant stop demographic change in the border areas of Bihar Elect Narendra Modi again in 2024 with twothird majority and we will put brakes on such attempts he saidIn his speech that lasted nearly half an hour Shah also touched upon bold steps such as the surgical strike the Balakot air strike abrogation of Article 370 and ban on Islamist organisation PFIThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever