Published 09:01 IST, March 2nd 2020
Prashant Kishor questions Nitish's silence on Delhi violence, slams him for 'Poor' Bihar
Expelled JD(U) leader Prashant Kishor on Monday attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and questioned his silence on Delhi violence in his rally.
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Expelled Janta Dal-United leer Prashant Kishor on Monday attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar questioning his silence over Delhi violence. As of Sunday, at least 43 people were killed and more than 200 people sustained serious injuries in violence that rocked rth-east Delhi for four days.
Nitish Kumar dressed a 'Karyakarta Sammelan' rally on Sunday, March 1. Taking to Twitter, Kishor took a jibe over Chief Minister's 'good governance' and asserted Bihar to be most backward and poor state in country. Kishor's tweet in Hindi re as, "Claimed to win 200 seats but did t say why despite ir 15 years of "good governance", Bihar is still most backward and poor state in country? Also, it was b on his part t to say a word on #DelhiViolence."
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Kishor has been in constant was of words with his former party. Kishor was expelled from JDU after he targeted NDA over amended citizenship law, taking directly on former BJP chief and Home Minister Amit Shah and indulging in a war-of-words with deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Modi, but more so, after engaging in an open spat with Nitish Kumar over how he came to be a member of party in first place.
He claimed that Nitish h lied when he said that Kishor h come via reference of Amit Shah. Kishor has since heavily criticised Bihar CM, and will undertake an outreach of his own called 'Baat Bihar Ki'.
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Nitish Kumar at JD(U) workers’ rally
On his 69th birthday on Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was united in Bihar and would win more than 200 seats in upcoming Assembly elections that will take place later this year. Kumar also highlighted achievements of his government and formally launched party’s campaign for upcoming Assembly poll. Bihar has 243 seats in its State Assembly.
“ NDA is united in Bihar. Let us resolve to ensure that NDA will win more than 200 seats in upcoming Assembly election in State,” Kumar said at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan.
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09:01 IST, March 2nd 2020