Ahead of the final phase of Bihar Assembly polls for 57 seats, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday questioned Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s visit to Pakistan three years ago.
“In what capacity did Chief Minister Nitish Kumar tour Pakistan three years ago when the neighbouring country has been abetting terrorism in India and now threatening to use nuclear weapons against our country,” he asked in a series of tweets. “Who all he was trying to send a message to by visiting Pakistan which neither shares borders with Bihar nor has business ties with our state?...There is no prospect of
Pakistani investor coming over to Bihar,” he said.
On the other hand, the chief minister’s visit to the Buddhist countries like Japan, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka would have been more fruitful as these countries have always provided assistance to Bihar which is a land of Lord Buddha, he said and wondered why Kumar never visited these countries.
Incidentally, Modi was the deputy chief minister in the erstwhile National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government when Kumar had led a delegation for the week-long visit to Pakistan in
November 2012.