Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar,who has led his support to Centre's nominee for the post of President on Sunday, asserted that he will not blindly follow anybody's ideology, as he has his own viewpoints and he believes in them.
Taking a dig at Congress, Kumar, in a meeting with party colleagues, raked Ram Manohar Lohia and said, the great leader had dubbed that the grand old party practices Gandhian rules for political benefits.
"We will not blindly follow anyone, we will deal with whatever happens in the future. We have our principles and we believe in them. And we are firm on our Principles and beliefs ," said Nitish.
"Our principles did not change, their (Congress') principles are changing. Lohia ji had dubbed Congress as "Sarkari gandhiwaadi."
Kumar last week broke ranks with the opposition to support Kovind. National spokesperson of the JD(U) K C Tyagi made a formal announcement in the evening about the JD(U)'s decision support Kovind. "We had discussions with party MLAs and it was decided to support Kovind. The MLAs were of the opinion that Kovind is a good man and had a non-controversial stint as Governor of Bihar," he said.
At a closed door meeting of party’s executive council here, Kumar, sources said, lashed out at the Congress. “Kumar said that Congress should be fighting on a different front (read BJP) than picking up a fight (with JD-U),” said a source privy to the minutes of the meet.
Kumar, who broke ranks with alliance partners Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress over the issue, told cadre that he would have attended the June 22 Opposition meet, had not Ghulam Nabi Azad had on 20th said that their party will not consider Kovind’s name. “What was the point in going to the meeting then?” Kumar said at Sunday’s meet.
With inputs by Vithika Salomi and agencies
