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Senior BJP leader Sushil Modi today said that the clean chit given by a Gujarat court to Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots was a "strong slap" on the face of "pseudo secular" leaders like Nitish Kumar and asked the Bihar Chief Minister to tender an apology for breaking the alliance.
"The verdict of a Gujarat Metropolitan court upholding the SIT report giving a clean chit to Narendra Modi is a strong slap on the face of pseudo secular leaders like Nitish Kumar who severed ties with the BJP in his name," Sushil Modi told reporters.
"Kumar, who broke the alliance with the BJP and disrespected people's mandate, should seek an apology from the public for this step in the name of Narendra Modi and accusing him for the 2002 riots in Gujarat," Modi, who was the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar in the NDA regime, said.
"After the court verdict, so called secular leaders like Nitish Kumar should reconsider their opinion about Narendra Modi," the BJP leader, flanked by bureaucrat-turned party leader R K Singh, said. He, however, categorically said there was no going back with the JD(U).
"The question of going for an alliance with the JD(U) again does not arise," he said. "There is free flow of money in transfer and posting of civil and police officials in Bihar now. People told me that you are living in the past as things have changed for the worse in Bihar now," Singh said.
Singh, who as Principal Secretary of the Road Construction Department in the Nitish Kumar's first tenure as CM in 2005, had laid a solid foundation for construction of quality roads and bridges in the state, said he was to join Kumar after retirement, but had to change the decision later.
Singh, who had shot into limelight after arresting BJP veteran L K Advani in Samastipur during his Rathyatra in 1990, said "I did so in discharge of my duty and have no repentance about it. "Advaniji appreciated my honesty toward duty and had cleared my name for Joint Secretary in Union Home Ministry when he was a minister, he said.
"I have always been unsparing in discharge of duty and arrested and initiated legal actions against many other politicians and even my relatives," Singh, who served as SDO of Jamui as his first posting after qualifying for IAS 39 year ago, said.
