Nitish Kumar, RJD, BJP betrayed people of Bihar: Owaisi

The Hyderabad MP claimed that Kumar would now be the namesake chief minister and that the "government of RSS and Narendra Modi" would run Bihar.

Hyderabad: Alleging that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and also Prime Minister Narendra Modi have “betrayed” the people of the state, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday said they should seek an apology from the people.

JD(U) president Kumar used to say that Owaisi is the B-Team of BJP, but now he is “shamelessly” sitting in the company of that party, the AIMIM leader said.

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“The three parties (JD(U), RJD and BJP) together have betrayed the people of Bihar on the issues they spoke about, the promises they made and (they) talked about their political ideology. Kumar’s role is big in this,” Owaisi told reporters here.

It would be an understatement to call Kumar’s actions “political opportunism” but he has “broken the record of everything,” he alleged. Owaisi said he had been saying for a long time that Kumar would go to the BJP again. Training his guns on Tejashwi Yadav, Owaisi said the RJD had taken away four MLAs of AIMIM in Bihar earlier and the same game has happened to the party now.

“I would like to ask Tejashwi Yadav. How does it feel now? You have taken four of our MLAs. Do you feel any pain in your mind now? Do you realise that the game which you played with us, the same has happened to you now,” he said.

The Hyderabad MP claimed that Kumar would now be the namesake chief minister and that the “government of RSS and Narendra Modi” would run Bihar.

The AIMIM was trying to prevent this, he claimed.

PM Modi had also spoken against Kumar when the latter had made “objectionable” comments against women, but is now in his company, Owaisi said.

The people of Bihar have been betrayed and the state’s development has stalled, the AIMIM leader said.

JD(U) president Kumar on Sunday took oath as the chief minister of Bihar for a record ninth time. Kumar had earlier in the day resigned as the chief minister, saying “things were not working well” for him in the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ and in the opposition bloc INDIA, and staked claim to form a new government with the BJP, which he had dumped less than 18 months ago.

The developments in Bihar show that “political secularism” is used only to betray Muslims in the country, Owaisi claimed.

The AIMIM leader said he hopes that Muslims and the “secular minded” people, not only in Bihar but in the entire country, would see how votes are obtained in the name of secularism in elections and how they are later put in the “bags of RSS, Modi”.

Alleging that JD(U) led by Kumar, RJD and BJP have “deceived” the people of Bihar, he said the people would teach them a befitting lesson. The new regime of JD(U)-BJP would be, in reality, a government of BJP-RSS and that Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav are responsible for it, he claimed.

The JD(U) and RJD claimed to be guardians of secularism. What will they say now in view of the BJP becoming a partner in the new government? he asked. On the demands for quotas for Marathas in Maharashtra, he said reservations can be given them. But, why are quotas not given to backward classes among Muslims in the state? he asked.

Owaisi expressed support for the caste census announced by the Congress government in Telangana.