Slamming the Congress for imposing Emergency 40 years ago, the BJP today asked RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar to apologise to people for shaking hands with the same party which had tried to stifle Parliamentary democracy in the country.
"It is regrettable that Lalu and Nitish have shaken hands with the same Congress which has been guilty for imposing Emergency in the country 40 years ago....The two must apologise to the people for their sin of joining hands with that party for power ," Senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said in a statement.
Recalling that the legendary socialist leader Jai Prakash Narayan was jailed along with several other leaders for opposing Emergency, he regretted that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar followed in the footsteps of the RJD to sit in the "lap of Congress".
Nitish, a product of the JP movement in 1970s along with Lalu Prasad, may have forgotten sins of Congress, but people still remember it, Modi said and charged the Chief Minister of betraying the socialist leader by reneging on his ideology.
The RJD had gone back on the ideals of the JP movement by roping in Congress in the RJD-led government headed by Rabri Devi and now Kumar too has followed in the footsteps of his alliance partner by taking Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's help to grab the position of Chief Ministerial face of the secular alliance in Bihar, he said.
