On Thursday, PM Modi was in Patna to attend the 350th Prakash Parv celebration of Guru Gobind Singh in Patna. He later had lunch with CM Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and his two sons Tejaswi and Tej Pratap Yadav, along with others. At the meal the PM mocked the 28-year-old Tej Pratap Yadav, Bihar’s 28-year-old Health Minister and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s older son. The PM was quoted by NDTV: “Aap toh Kishan Kanhaiya ho gaye hain (you are becoming a likeness of Krishna).”
The PM was referring to pictures of Tej Pratap Yadav which had gone viral, in which he was dressed as Lord Krishna, and his remarks left politicians wondering how he kept track of them. On New Year’s,Tej Pratap who dressed up as Lord Krishna, was spotted playing flute with a red turban on his head. “A devotee in Vrindavan gifted me all this and asked me to wear them on New Year, so I am celebrating like this today,” he told ANI.
Tej Pratap Yadav was earlier in the news for messing up his oath. During, the oath-taking ceremony, 28-year-old Tej Pratap, made mistake, not once, but twice. Governor Ram Nath Kovind asked Tej Pratap to repeat the oath after he pronounced the word 'apekshit' as 'upekshit'.
Earlier PM Modi, showered fulsome praise on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for launching a movement against liquor and appealed to all to make prohibition a grand success, weeks after he lauded the JD(U) chief for supporting demonetization "I greet Nitish Kumar from the core of my heart for launching a campaign against liquor," the PM said as Nitish and his ally RJD President Lalu Prasad shared the dais with him during the concluding function of 350th Prakash Parva of 10th Sikh Guru Govind Singh.
"But, this work (prohibition) would not be a grand success only by efforts of Nitish Kumar or one party. All the political parties, social organisations and citizens have to participate in it to make it a 'jan-jan ka andolan' (peoples movement)," Modi said. Bihar will become an example for the entire country through successful implementation of prohibition, the PM said. The PM's mention of prohibition came in response to the Bihar Chief Minister's request to him to spread prohibition across the country. Fulfilling its poll promise, Nitish Kumar government had imposed total prohibition in Bihar. Kumar in his address mentioned that Narendra Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat had successfully carried prohibition which has been in force in the western state since its inception.
With inputs from agencies
