Nitish’s swearing-in ceremony sent out wrong message: BJP

BJP on Sunday observed that the “message” sent out at Nitish Kumar’s oath-taking ceremony in Patna, about an anti-BJP front taking shape, was “confusing” as leaders of various parties who attended it were all ambitious, making it difficult for them to come together.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Kumar’s swearing-in witnessed a range of opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Farooq Abdullah, Sharad Pawar and H D Deve Gowda, but all of them were highly ambitious making it difficult for them to come together.

“People like Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal had gathered there. But the message they tried to send out from there was a confused one. They are highly ambitious... All have national ambitions. It seems to be too many swords in one sheath,” Patra, who was here to participate at the party’s Social Media Volunteers’ Meet, said.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Chief Ministers of West Bengal, Delhi, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, National Conference leaders and former Jammu and Kashmir CMs Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar, AIUDF leader from Assam Badaruddin Ajmal and former prime minister and JDS 

supremo H D Deve Gowda were present at the ceremony.

Congress chief ministers like Virbhadra Singh (Himachal Pradesh), Oommen Chandy (Kerala), Tarun Gogoi (Assam) and Siddaramiah (Karnataka), CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s Sudhakar Reddy and D Raja, DMK’s MK Stalin and TR Baalu also attended the event.