Modi invited to Bihar by BJP

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The BJP on Friday formally invited Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar, a move that is likely to create problems with its alliance, the JDU, and may revive the clash between Mr Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar ahead of the state Assembly polls.

“Modiji, please come to Bihar. You may campaign and hold the BJP flag high,” BJP general secretary and in-charge of the party in Bihar, Mr Ananth Kumar, told a meeting of the party’s Gujarat executive here. He said the BJP national president sent him as he was in-charge of the party in Bihar.
“I feel from the bottom of my heart that it may be Bengalore, Benaras or Balia — Bharat or Bihar. We invite him to come to campaign. He is our leader,” he said to a thunderous applause from enthused Gujarat party leaders. Mr Modi and other senior leaders, including Arun Jaitley, were seated on the dais.
Only last month, Mr Nitish Kumar snubbed the BJP by cancelling a dinner for its top leadership in Patna when they were there for a meeting of the national executive after a couple of advertisements were published in local dailies showing Mr Modi and Mr Nitish Kumar holding hands together.
Subsequently, he also returned financial aid given by the Gujarat government during the Kosi floods in Bihar. Miffed by the advertisement issued at the time of the BJP national executive meeting in Patna, Mr Nitish Kumar had said that as per Indian culture, one does not advertise help offered by one state to another at the time of natural calamity.
Meanwhile, Mr Ananth Kumar hit out at the UPA government for “misusing Central agency CBI to harass BJP-ruled state governments in the country”. He demanded the constitution of a joint parliamentary committee to look into the issue misuse of the CBI.