In an apparent bid to create fissures in the secular alliance ahead of the remaining three phases of Assembly polls, the BJP has made public Nitish Kumar’s letter to the then Chief Minister Lalu Prasad 23 years ago in which he had charged Prasad with fostering corruption and giving leverage to a particular caste in government jobs.
The BJP published selectively from Kumar’s letter in full-page advertisements in vernacular dailies on Saturday and asked people to decide for whom to vote. The letters were taken from author Srikant’s book ‘Bihar: <g data-gr-id="11">Chitthion</g> ki Rajniti’ (Bihar: Politics of Letter).
In the letter written in December 1992, Kumar accused Prasad, then his <g data-gr-id="10">comrade in-arms</g>, of renouncing social justice agenda and making it a mere slogan for personal popularity. “There appears to be <g data-gr-id="13">grave</g> injustice to the extent that one can smell a sense of prejudice when one looks at <g data-gr-id="14">practical</g> aspect of the social justice agenda (in Bihar),” he had purportedly written in that letter.