NEW DELHI: Nitish kumar, who is known to remain calm, on Friday lost his cool on the floor of the Bihar Mount as leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav launched a relentless attack on him and even accused the prime minister of being afraid of a girl.
“You are lying … Have you forgotten who appointed you deputy CM?” Nitish said as he reacted angrily to Tejashwi’s accusations on the Chamber floor. Meanwhile, Prime Minister JD (U) ‘s party called Tejashwi a “failed cricketer and failed Class 9 student.”
The exchange in the assembly turned ugly when the RJD Leader, during his speech, he mentioned some old cases to attack Nitish.
Tejashwi mentioned a murder case in which the prime minister had been named the defendant, a plagiarism case brought by a JNU academic regarding a book published by a Patna-based think tank that was endorsed by the prime minister, in addition to Srijan. scam that is being investigated by the CBI.
Nitish sat quietly listening to Tejashwi’s spikes and accusations during the RJD leader’s hour-long speech.
Later, when it was the turn of JD (U) leader and parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary to speak, Kumar expressed disapproval of the references made by Tejashwi in his speech.
But the RJD leader rose from his chair and persisted with his accusations.
“It was a serious matter that I raised on the basis of the facts. Isn’t it true that the prime minister had to pay a fine in connection with the murder case,” Tejashwi said.
This interjection by the young leader turned out to be the turning point for the prime minister, who stood up and said … “He is telling a lie.”
“I challenge the president to examine the veracity of his statement and take the necessary action. I have been listening to his tirade simply because he is the son of a friend whom I treat like a brother,” Nitish said.
“Do you know how your father (Lalu Prasad) became prime minister? Have you forgotten who made you executive vice president? I had to separate simply because he ignored my advice to explain things,” Nitish said angrily.
Earlier in his speech, Tejashwi accused the prime minister of being afraid of a girl.
He was reacting to a comment made by Nitish Kumar during the campaign in which, without giving a name, the prime minister had said that people father 8 to 9 children due to their desire to have a male child.
“I hope the prime minister knows that my parents’ youngest child was a girl, born after two children,” said Yadav, whose older brother Tej Pratap Yadav is also a member of the state assembly and his younger sister Rajlaxmi Yadav , is married in the family of the chairman of the Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav.
“Now we come to the fact that the prime minister has only one child. Could we apply his own stick and say that he did not have another for fear that it could be a girl,” Tejashwi remarked.
This led to the condemnation of the ruling NDA leaders.
The young RJD leader, who participated in the debate on the governor’s speech to the newly constituted assembly, expressed his dismay that, while focusing on “people issues” during the elections, the ruling NDA decided to do the opposite.
(With inputs from agencies)
On video: Nitish Kumar loses his cool during Bihar assembly session as Tejashwi denounces old murder charges
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