Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's oblique reference to his political detractors who "kw thing, are igrant of even a, b, c of politics but still get lots of publicity" on Friday touched a raw nerve with RJD heir apparent Tejashwi Yav. While dressing state council meeting of JD (U) heed by him, Kumar hit out at opponents who kept making personal attacks on him to gain publicity while refraining from mentioning any party or leer by name.

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Tejaswi Yav's fuming tweets

However, 29-year-old younger son of Lalu Pras took bait and came out with a flurry of tweets accusing chief minister of having me "unseemly remarks" against leer of Opposition.

" Chief Minister says I do t kw anything. Okay uncle, but n why did you make me Deputy CM? Why did you grow restless when I handled (well) portfolios that were allotted to me? If you feel gratified in making unseemly remarks against leer of Opposition n, please, continue doing so on a daily basis," Yav said in a tweet.

In ar tweet, Tejaswi Yav said, "Nitish Ji, I am leer of Opposition and you are CM. If you take my raising of your mismanment and failures before public as my igrance n it is your igrance. With due respect, I say your political journey predates my birth. Still, I challenge you for an open debate on any topic of your choice."

In his final tweet of series, he said, "Excuse me, uncle, I may be young but I have t learnt from you how to tre with one's principles and ideology. You have been CM for 15 years and yet you do t have capability to go it alone in elections. Please think over shortcomings that force you to depend on crutches for your political survival and enlighten people about same."

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Nitish Kumar's change of alliances

tably, Kumar h fought assembly elections in 2015 in alliance with RJD and Congress, after a patch-up with Pras his arch-rival which followed drubbing of all n-NDA parties in Lok Sabha polls previous year. Kumar h snapped ties with BJP in 2013.

After Kumar was re-elected chief minister in 2015, Tejashwi Yav who me his electoral debut at a tender of 25 was straightaway me Deputy CM while his elder bror Tej Pratap Yav got a cabinet berth. Money laundering cases against Tejashwi Yav and RJD's refusal to heed demand for his resignation caused Kumar to walk out of Grand Alliance and return to NDA in 2017.

Yav lost Deputy CM's chair as a consequence and took over as leer of Opposition in state assembly. He emerged as RJD's de facto leer after his far went to jail in December 2017 in fodder scam cases but questions have been raised over his leership abilities in wake of Lok Sabha poll results in which party drew a blank.

In his speech earlier in day, Kumar h also me an oblique reference to RJD's failure to do well in pockets of influence of Pras's family which controls party.

His close to bone jibe came a day after Yav h rejected, at a meeting of RJD's mirity cell, suggestions by a number of party veterans that Kumar should be wooed back so that forces opposed to BJP which emerged more formidable than ever before in just-concluded Lok Sabha polls regain an edge.

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