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Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday charged the BJP with trying to communalise the election atmosphere in the State saying the party was in “panic in the face of defeat.”
Kumar said the saffron party had neither ‘leader’ nor ‘policy and intention’ to show the people and therefore it is trying to communalise the situation. “BJP in panic – without neta , niti & niyat in Bihar & facing defeat they’re brazenly attempting to communalise & mask it with Modi’s rhetorics,” Kumar said in a tweet.
While addressing a public meeting, Kumar asked people to remain ‘alert’ as there would be attempts to create tension among communities to rake up emotion before the five-phase Assembly polls beginning October 12.
Kumar’s comment came in view of the lynching of a man in Bishada village of Uttar Pradesh recently following rumours that the family had consumed and stored beef. “You (people) have to maintain peace and harmony at any cost. It is their (BJP’s) design to provoke you in order to reap (political) dividends,” the senior JD(U) leader said.
Terming the BJP-led NDA a divided house, Kumar said a leader of one NDA constituent was making public statements against another. He said “former IAS officer R K Singh had joined BJP during Lok Sabha polls and now he says the party has given tickets to wrong candidates. This is the situation of BJP.”
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