Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das on Sunday described RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar as “arrogant leaders” and called for decimation of the JD(U) government in the coming Bihar Assembly polls to usher in development and good governance. “Both leaders - Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar - are arrogant and it is because of their collective arrogance, Bihar has slipped into a mess over the past 25 years,” Das said.
“One arrogant leader’s politics is family-centric and aimed at ensuring as to how his sons and daughters somehow enter the state legislature, another pursues individual- centric politics aimed at promotion of himself alone for which he can do anything,” he said in a dig at Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar respectively.
“While one leader (Lalu) has not learnt any lesson from defeat of his wife (Rabri Devi) and daughter (Misa Bharti) in general elections last year and still nurtures ambition to send his sons and daughters to the state legislature, the other leader (Nitish) insulted the Dalits by removing his successor Jitan Ram Manjhi from the chief minister’s post to pursue his individual centric politics,” Das said. The Jharkhand Chief Minister tore into his Bihar counterpart describing him as an ambitious persons in addition to being arrogant saying he betrayed the huge mandate in favour of the NDA in the 2010 Assembly elections so that he could fulfil his burning ambition to become Prime Minister.