Face of Nation : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s reference to his political detractors who “know nothing, are ignorant of even a, b, c of politics but still get lots of publicity” on Friday touched a uncooked nerve with RJD inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav.
Whereas addressing the state council assembly of the JD (U) headed by him, Mr Kumar hit out at opponents who saved making private assaults on him to achieve publicity whereas refraining from mentioning any social gathering or chief by title.
Nevertheless, the 29-year-old youthful son of Lalu Yadav took the bait and got here out with a flurry of tweets accusing the chief minister of getting made “unseemly remarks” towards the chief of the Opposition.
“The Chief Minister says I do not know anything. Okay uncle, but then why did you make me the Deputy CM? Why did you grow restless when I handled (well) the portfolios that were allotted to me? If you feel gratified in making unseemly remarks against the leader of the Opposition then, please, continue doing so on a daily basis,” Mr Yadav mentioned in a tweet.
In one other tweet, Mr Yadav mentioned, “Nitish ji, I am the leader of the Opposition and you are the CM. If you take my raising of your mismanagement and failures before the public as my ignorance then it is your ignorance. 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 closing tweet of the collection, he mentioned, “Excuse me, uncle, I may be young but I have not learnt from you how to trade with one’s principles and ideology. You have been the CM for 15 years and yet you do not have the capability to go it alone in elections. Please think over the shortcomings that force you to depend on crutches for your political survival and enlighten the people about the same.”
Notably, Mr Kumar had fought the meeting elections in 2015 in alliance with RJD and Congress, after a patch-up with Lalu Yadav, his arch rival, which adopted the drubbing of all of the non-NDA events within the Lok Sabha polls the earlier 12 months.
After Kumar was re-elected chief minister in 2015, Tejashwi Yadav who made his electoral debut on the age of 25 was straightaway made the Deputy CM whereas his elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav acquired a cupboard berth. Cash laundering instances towards Tejashwi Yadav and RJD’s refusal to heed the demand for his resignation prompted Mr Kumar to stroll out of the Grand Alliance and return to the NDA in 2017.
Mr Yadav then took over because the chief of the Opposition within the state meeting. He emerged because the RJD’s de facto chief after his father went to jail in December, 2017 in fodder rip-off instances however questions have been raised over his management skills within the wake of the Lok Sabha ballot outcomes by which the social gathering drew a clean.
In his speech earlier within the day, Mr Kumar had additionally made a reference to the RJD’s failure to do nicely in pockets of affect of Lalu Yadav’s household which controls the social gathering.
His near the bone jibe got here a day after Mr Yadav had rejected, at a gathering of the RJD’s minority cell, options by various social gathering veterans that Mr Kumar ought to be wooed again in order that forces against the BJP which emerged extra formidable than ever earlier than within the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls regain an edge.
