Patna: Bhartiya Janata Party had condemned the comment of Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi who termed upper caste people as “foreigner and descendants of Aryan race.”
BJP slammed his statement for “stoking caste tension” in state.
Notify that Manjhi in a function in Bettiah on Tuesday said, “The upper caste people are foreigners and descendants of the Aryan race….They have come here from foreign countries.”
Manjhi had however too claimed that “Only tribals and dalits are indigenous people.”
Bihar CM Manjhi asked them to educate themselves and imbibe political awareness to ensure that downtrodden sections could play a pivotal role in formation of governments in Bihar.
A sharp reaction however, drawn from the opposition BJP with its senior leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi who criticised the Manjhi for stoking caste tension in Bihar.
Modi said that the Chief Minister has tried to sow a wedge between different sections by questioning ethnicity of the upper caste people which may stoke caste tension in Bihar.
The BJP leader claimed that Manjhi’s gaffe was not the first instance when he had tried “to divide the people on social grounds” as he had earlier alleged of being discriminated at a shrine in Madhubani district which, the chief minister had said, was washed and purified soon after he had paid obeisance there.
Bureau Report
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