Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar’s recent bowing in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become contentious, with Anakita Prashant Kishore political Strategy activist, claiming that it was organized to make Kumar continue in the leadership position.
Speaking at a public rally in Bhagalpur on Friday, Kishor said that the head of a state’s bowing to touch the PM’s feet‘ embarrassed Bihar’. Further Kishor accused Kumar of wanting BJP’s support to continue in power even in Bihar’s forthcoming 2025 assembly elections.
”Lay people ask me why I am now opposing Nitish Kumar when I have worked with him earlier. Let me tell you that he was a different man altogether; his conscience has today been sold out,” Kishor said, nitpicking at Janata Dal (United) leader.
Kishor, who had supervised Kumar’s campaign in 2015 and had also later on joined the party, jeered that the Bihar Chief Minister does not wield his muscles to bargain for the state’s benefits but is scrambling head over heels to ‘touch the feet’ to guarantee future premiership post-2025 assembly polls with BJP support.
The fuss started after Kumar, whose JD(U) party secured twenty-two seats in the latest Lok Sabha polls, making the party the second largest partner of the BJP, prostrated to touch Modi’s feet when they met as the NDA Parliamentary Party before the Prime Minister’s swearing-in.
Kishor alleged – ‘The leader of a state is the pride of its people. But Nitish Kumar, who has disgraced Bihar with his ever-flexible feet, touched the feet of Modi.’
Also worthy of mention is that Kishor had earlier tasted success and grabbed limelight in 2014, handling Modi’s splendid Lok Sabha poll campaign. Before exiting the political consultancy domain in 2021 Kishor had assisted at least three prominent leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, and Jagan Mohan Reddy.
