Lalu ‘super CM’ in Bihar, Nitish a puppet: BJP

Citing the Bihar government’s decision to withdraw cases against Lalu Prasad, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said it has vindicated its charge that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief was the “super chief minister” and claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could go to any extent to save his chair.

“Kumar has become a puppet Chief Minister. His silence when the state is seeing a rise in criminal cases and many MLAs of the ruling alliance are accused of crime, is shameful,” BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.

The RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance’s poll slogan ‘Bihar me bahar ho’, in reality, had become ‘Apradhi ki bahar ho’ (criminals are having a field day), he said, citing a number of recent cases. A Congress MLA has been accused of kidnapping a girl, a JD(U) MLA has threatened a DSP and an RJD legislator has been accused of threatening cops, he alleged.