Khagaria, Oct 6: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday claimed that the NDA government headed by Nitish Kumar in Bihar was coming apart in the state.
“The Nitish government is a product of a contract between the BJP and the JD(U) and the agreement appears to be over,” he told a public meeting during his ‘Parivartan Yatra' in this district.
“This government will have to go now,” he said apparently referring to the hitch in ties recently between the JD(U) and the BJP.
Kumar had recently advocated for a secular person as the NDA's prime ministerial candidate in the next general elections in an apparent aim to scuffle the prospects of his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi.
Lalu blamed Kumar, a former central minister, for blocking consideration of the special status demand by the erstwhile NDA government after the then chief minister Rabri Devi had sent a proposal for it following bifurcation of the state.
He slammed Kumar for harping on special category status and said that his ongoing yatra was an “electoral stunt to fool the people to vote for his candidates” in the next general elections.
He also dubbed the trouble during Kumar's ‘Adhikar Yatra' as the ‘spontaneous reaction' of the people and not the handiwork of the Opposition parties as alleged by the chief minister.
