BJP whips up emotional issue to conceal failure: Nitish

Launching a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) row, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led dispensation has triggered an emotional issue in a bid to hide its failure on economic front.

“Since they have failed miserably on economic front after making tall claims during the 2014 parliamentary elections, they (BJP and RSS) have triggered an emotional issue (JNU event) to hide the failure,” Kumar said.

He criticised the Centre for levelling sedition charge on JNU Student’s Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who hails from Bihar, without any evidence. 

“If they have any evidence that justifies Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest on sedition charge, why do not they make it public?” he asked, and added that “JNU is on their (BJP and RSS) target because there is negligible percentage of people who believe in saffron ideology”. Condemning Kanhaiya’s arrest, he said it was “too much of a design” to impose the ideology of ABVP on the nation.