Nitish, Modi are CMs at par, says RSS chief
11 Aug 2012 7:48 AM IST
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat courted controversy on Thursday when in an interaction with foreign correspondents in New Delhi he mentioned the development level of Bihar in the same vein as that in Gujarat and calling both the states as models of good governance.
The other states doing well on the development front, according to Bhagwat, are Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Three of them are the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, while Bihar has the BJP as a junior partner in the government.
Bhagwat, who was interacting with journalists at the Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia, went on to hail the development work in Bihar under the Nitish Kumar regime and said that the law-and-order problem has been tackled well in the state. He also said that in terms of infrastructure development, roads have been widened in the state and the outlook of the state has changed in the last five years.
While the correspondents present during the interaction insist that Bhagwat hailed the development model of Bihar, the RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav later said that Bhagwat never made these statements. 'The reports that are coming out are false,' said Madhav.
These statements from the RSS chief come at a time when the friction between the Bihar chief minister and the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has made news. Kumar had made his displeasure known of Modi being projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the National Democratic Alliance for the 2014 General Election. The Bihar chief minister had, in fact, recently met the BJP president Nitin Gadkari and conveyed to him that he would not support Modi for the prime minister's post.
The other states doing well on the development front, according to Bhagwat, are Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Three of them are the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, while Bihar has the BJP as a junior partner in the government.
Bhagwat, who was interacting with journalists at the Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia, went on to hail the development work in Bihar under the Nitish Kumar regime and said that the law-and-order problem has been tackled well in the state. He also said that in terms of infrastructure development, roads have been widened in the state and the outlook of the state has changed in the last five years.
While the correspondents present during the interaction insist that Bhagwat hailed the development model of Bihar, the RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav later said that Bhagwat never made these statements. 'The reports that are coming out are false,' said Madhav.
These statements from the RSS chief come at a time when the friction between the Bihar chief minister and the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has made news. Kumar had made his displeasure known of Modi being projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the National Democratic Alliance for the 2014 General Election. The Bihar chief minister had, in fact, recently met the BJP president Nitin Gadkari and conveyed to him that he would not support Modi for the prime minister's post.
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