[1]Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday made a frontal attack at his party’s one-time partner, the BJP, and the new poster boy of the saffron party, Narendra Modi, saying that a national leader should be able to take an entire nation along.
Replying to the trust vote after the BJP staged a walk-out, the Chief Minister made it clear that he cannot accept “divisive politics or a divisive leader.”
There shall be no compromise on secularism, he said.
He flayed the BJP for releasing a 2003 tape wherein he had praised Modi in Gujarat. “I had been to Gujarat as the Railway Minister and do you expect me to insult the chief minister of a state or speak ill of him,” he asked the House.
Nitish also pointed out that the so-called Gujarat model of development is not a template that can be applied across all states. Local dynamics are different, he said.
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