Bihar’s Modi to skip Gujarat CM function

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Santosh Singh: Patna, Dec 26 2012, 03:00 IST

Even as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is yet to respond to Gujarat poll verdict, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi appears to be treading cautiously by deciding not to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi. Bihar BJP president C P Thakur, however, will attend the function.

Sources said the Bihar deputy CM would not go to Gujarat because “he has not received a personal invitation” from Narendra Modi. This is the second time that the Bihar deputy CM might have felt being ignored by the Gujarat CM. After the 2010 resounding victory for the JD-U-BJP combine (the BJP won 91 seats), the Gujarat CM did not congratulate Sushil Kumar Modi.

Thakur said: “I have received a big invitation card through post to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in. I am going to attend it. I do not know which other Bihar BJP leader is going there. Nitish Kumar should have shown a large heart and congratulated Narendra Modi.”

The Bihar government is not sending any representative to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who will take oath on Wednesday. Though Gujarat government sources said all chief ministers had been sent invitations on December 21, Bihar CM House sources refused to either confirm or deny having received any such invitation.

Sushil Kumar Modi’s staying away from the Gujarat function might well comfort senior alliance partner JD-U. A senior JD-U leader said: “Media is reading too much into Nitishji’s silence on Gujarat victory. But one must remember that Narendra Modi had also not

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Votebank politics

Bodan | 27-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

JDU has been a party doing vote bank politics with minority community and will gradually be eliminated from future politics which will be based on only development. These hypocrite parties will gradually be marginalized. These leaders are so scared of vote bank that they break all decency of public life. Congress,TDP, JDU, TMC, DMK, SP, BSP,BJD. The people of India will not forgive them for looking after their own selfish interest at the cost of the nation.

Nitish Kumar is right in not attending Modi's oath ceremony

Divyesh | 27-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Nitish Kumar is right in not attending Modi's oath ceremony. He knows about Modi's attitude towards minorities and he doesn't want to support him for that reason. He never wants Modi to come to Bihar for campaigning during elections. Nitish Kumar is genius and he is a man of principles. He had cancelled a diner arranged by him for BJP top brass during BJP's meeting in Patna as Modi had advertised his photo with Nitish Kumar. Noe Sushil Modi a BJO Dy. CM also neglected Modi and preferred not to attend his oath ceremony.