Downplaying Nitish Kumar's challenge of having a Sangh-free India, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said that the Bihar Chief Minister did not have the mettle to carry out such a plot and asserted that the Bihar Chief Minister's attempts at uniting anti-BJP forces would soon fizzle out.
"Does Nitish want the same Congress, which ruled the nation for 55 years and destroyed it, to come back to power? Narendra Modi has not even completed two years in the country and he cannot digest him already. This is a Prime Minister who is endeavouring to ensure that electricity reaches every village, who initiated schemes to construct functional bathrooms in every house, who is trying to construct roads in every village," BJP leader Sushil Modi told ANI.
Accusing Nitish of being a Chief Minister who has absolutely no legs to stand on, Modi added that the former rode on the shoulders of BJP and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav for his own convenience, to secure the top post.
"Leaders like Mulayam, Mamata, and Jayalalithaa are more powerful than Nitish as they stood on their own two feet to become Chief Minister's," he said. Asserting that the Prime Minister's work in two years has been exemplary, Modi added that no amount of plotting and scheming will dent his work and that he will sweep the 2019 general election.
Earlier today, at the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) party's National Council Meeting, Nitish said that "if a person is destined to become the Prime Minister, he would become the PM one day", expressing his desire to become a candidate.
Kumar had last week mounted a counter-offensive against Prime Minister Modi for his 'Congress-mukt Bharat' slogan and said all the non-BJP parties will have to come together to usher in a "Sangh-free Bharat".
Kumar later said that it was his personal opinion, but, maintained that Sangh's ideology would not benefit the nation. He had also said that the country was heading towards a bipolar political divide where the BJP-RSS are on one side and the rest on the other.
Earlier on Saturday, speaking at the Janata Dal (United)'s National Council Meeting in Patna, Nitish criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for using disgraceful language against him during poll campaigns. "The BJP, out of arrogance, used disgraceful language? they questioned my DNA but we never lost our patience, we didn't stoop down," he said.
