Patna, July 19: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday sought to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of his alliance with the RJD, underscoring his old friendship with the party’s founding president Lalu Prasad.
Kumar was asked by journalists about Modi’s remarks at the NDA meeting on Tuesday when the PM had spoken of “abuses exchanged by JD(U) and RJD”.
Prime Minister was flaying parties opposed to the BJP which met at Bengaluru. and announced a new alliance with the acronym “INDIA”.
“Does he not remember what happened in 2015?” Kumar, the JD(U)’s supreme leader, quipped.
Bihar Chief Minister was referring to the Bihar Assembly polls which his party fought in alliance with the RJD and the Congress and inflicted a crushing defeat on the BJP-led coalition despite an intensive campaign by the PM.
Nitish Kumar also blamed the BJP, which rules the Centre, on his parting of ways with Prasad in 2017 when “cases were slapped against them, all of which fizzled out” and he was hotly pursued by the saffron party to return to the NDA. (PTI)