Mumbai: Shiv Sena had talk tough words to Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday through its mouthpiece “Saamana” and said that backing the Chief Minsiter of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi would be a “sin” as it would be an endorsement of “black era in politics”.
Sena on Monday fire another salvo at ally BJP and taunted it over the issue of supporting Bihar CM Manjhi.
An editorial in Saamana said, “Nobody should indulge in this sin of backing for political interest someone who has publicly said he accepts commission.”
It said, “Nitish Kumar has the backing of 130 legislators and yet he (Manjhi) is trying to get BJP support. BJP is pitting Manjhi against Nitish Kumar.”
The Sena’s latest attack on BJP comes two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and NCP chief Sharad Pawar met at the latter’s home turf Baramati.
Notify that NCP had announced unconditional outside support to BJP when it emerged single largest party in October 15 assembly polls.
The editorial further said that “nobody should justify the current goings on in Bihar politics”.
Sena said, “Manjhi has said he gets commission for development work. What he has said is a fact in politics. A CM who accepts he gets commission is trying to win majority in assembly with BJP support.”
Notable that while addressing a function, Manjhi had generated controversy by saying, “engineers and technocrats used to escalate cost of bridge construction projects and used to pay some share to contractors and some to me even.”
He later said he uttered “symbolic” things to highlight that money used to come to even such a high level but actually he did not take money as CM.
Bureau Report
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