"Nitish does not have the moral right to question the secular credentials of Modi as long as he remains a part of NDA," CPI(M-L) General Secretary Deepankar Bhattacharya told reporters.
Kumar cannot wish away the fact that he was a minister in the NDA government at the Centre for six years and has been sharing power with the BJP in Bihar for the past seven years, he said and expressed amusement at the former's attack on Modi demanding that the NDA's prime ministerial candidate should be a secular person.
Samata Party, of which Kumar was a member, was the first major national party to join forces with NDA soon after demolition of Babri Mosque. "Kumar's cular soul did not revolt when the Gujarat riots took place in 2002 when he was the Railway minister at the Centre," Bhattacharya said.
"Kumar will never pass the litmus test for secular image by merely questioning the secular credentials of Modi and the people of Bihar were unlikely to pat his back for taking on Modi when their own aspirations remained unfulfilled."
Bhattacharya also accused him of compromising his social justice agenda by making truce with the feudal forces as was envidenced from the hurried manner that he recommended a CBI probe in the Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh alias Mukhiyaji's murder.
He urged Kumar to order a high-level probe in the murder of an alleged terror suspect Md Qateel Siddique who was killed by a fellow inmate in Yervada jail in Maharashtra recently.
