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RJD hits out at Nitish for Modi handshake
Saturday May 05, 2012 11:24:19 PM,
IANS
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Patna: Bihar's
opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal Saturday hit out at Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar, questioning his secular credentials after he warmly
greeted his Gujarat counterpart, the Bharatiya Janata Party's
Narendra Modi, at a meeting in New Delhi.
Leader of Opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui said that Nitish Kumar's
handshake with Modi is nothing but his real face.
"Nitish Kumar's outburst against Modi was a political hypocrisy.
He has been trying to fool people. They are good friend in public
as well in private," said Siddiqui.
The Congress also criticised Nitish Kumar.
"The way a smiling Nitish Kumar met Modi and shook his hand like
an old friend has exposed Kumar's double standards over his stand
against Modi in recent months," senior Congress leader Ashok
Choudhary said.
A leader of Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JD-U) sought to
downplay the incident
"It was a coursey handshake at a meeting, nothing more than that,"
said JD-U leader Ravinder Kumar.
Nitish Kumar and the JD-U, which have been consistently making
attempts to woo Muslim voters in the state, had strongly opposed
Modi's coming to Bihar for campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections
in 2009 and the state assembly elections in 2010.
Differences between Nitish Kumar and the BJP over Modi began three
years ago when he expressed displeasure over newspaper
advertisements featuring him and Modi. Later, Nitish Kumar even
returned the money given by Gujarat to the state in 2008 for flood
relief.
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