BJP trying to communalise Bihar: Nitish, Lalu

Patna: Bihar’s Grand Alliance leaders–Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad, on Tuesday accused BJP of trying to “communalise” the atmosphere in the poll-bound state, alleging that the party is in panic fearing “defeat.”
Kumar said the saffron party has neither any ‘leader’ nor any ‘policy and intention’ to show the people and therefore it is trying to communalise the situation.
“BJP in panic–without neta, niti and niyat in Bihar and facing defeat they’re brazenly attempting to communalise and mask it with Modi’s rhetorics,” Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Hitting out at BJP, Prasad, a former Bihar Chief Minister, said, “These people of rumour party seeing a sure defeat has no agenda and that’s why they have fallen on their tested communal agenda.”
Targeting BJP President Amit Shah, he asked him “where is the developmental agenda of BJP?”
The comments by the two leaders came against the backdrop of the lynching of a man in Bishada village of Uttar Pradesh recently.
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.
Terming the BJP-led NDA a divided house, Kumar said a leader of one NDA constituent is making public statement against the leader of another partner.
Late Kailashpati Mishra was founder member of the BJP but his daughter-in-law was denied ticket by the party after his demise, Kumar said, adding that former health minister Chandra Mohan Rai had faced the same fate. (PTI)