TIL Desk/National/Patna/ RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday took potshots at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s name not figuring among the star campaigners of the Janata Dal (United) for the assembly polls in Gujarat, where the party is contesting more than 50 seats.
“This is strange that Nitish was a star campaigner of his party in the Delhi municipal polls. But he is staying away from the poll campaign in Gujarat despite his party contesting more than 50 assembly seats,” Yadav said in a statement here.
Recalling the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and the 2010 Bihar assembly polls, Yadav said Kumar had on both occasions “prevented then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from coming to the state and campaigning for the BJP”.
“But who is stopping Kumar from going to Gujarat. Should we assume that Modi is now avenging his past insults and preventing the Bihar chief minister from setting foot on his home turf,” the former Bihar deputy chief minister asked.
Kumar, who had been a BJP ally for more than a decade, snapped ties with the saffron party in 2013 as he was opposed to Modi being named the prime ministerial candidate. He again joined hands with the BJP in July this year.
