Nitish says Modi expert in cultivation of falsehood

 

Patna, Nov 11, 2013 (PTI): Reacting sharply to Narendra Modi’s barb that he was feasting during serial blasts in Patna, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar termed the BJP prime ministerial candidate as an "expert in the cultivation of falsehood".

 

"The incidence of serial blasts at the rally in Patna was most condemnable... But terrorists in a way helped BJP otherwise their rally at Patna was flop in terms of size of crowd," Kumar said emerging from ’Janata ke darbar me Mukhya Mantri’ programme.

 

Modi had told a poll meeting in Chhattisgarh last week that while blasts were taking place in his rally at Patna, the "insensitive" Bihar chief minister was "feasting" at the JD(U) convention at Rajgir.

 

"He (Modi) is an expert in the cultivation of falsehood (’jhooth ki kheti’)... He is speaking a white lie... He is striving for the high post of prime ministership, so instead of speaking unnecessary things he should make it known to people what is his vision on economic, social issues and foreign policy," Kumar said.

 

Lambasting Modi, whose elevation in BJP had caused JD(U) to walk out of NDA, he said, "He has again gone wrong. I cancelled my scheduled programme at Munger on October 27 to attend an international yoga convention and proceed to Rajgir from their. It’s on record anybody can check it."

 

On Modi’s accusation of a "feast" at the JD(U) convention at Rajgir when the blasts took place, Kumar said the party neither has the ’aukat’ (potential) nor ’sanskar’ (culture) of hosting feasts at party function.

 

Expressing anger over the charge of ’criminal negligence’ of security on October 27 and preventing arrest and subsequent questioning of Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, Kumar said BJP leaders are following the advice of Hitler’s advisor Joseph Goebbel’s that if a falsehood is repeated a hundred times at least a few people would take it as the truth.

 

Referring to Modi’s charge of being an "insensitive" person for not visiting the kin of families of those killed in the Patna serial blast, he said, "Who is saying this? A person who himself did not visit the hospital and families of victims of blasts of 2008 in Ahmedabad."

 

"Isn’t it true that he visited the hospital to meet victims only when the prime minister went there after the 2002 riots and 2008 blasts," he said.