Nitish Kumar is BJP's puppet, paid price for betraying allies: Rohini Acharya
India Today
Former RJD leader Rohini Acharya lashed out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he announced his decision to contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha election, claiming that the BJP had "forced" him to take such a decision.
Former RJD leader Rohini Acharya on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he announced his decision to contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha election, alleging that the JD(U) chief was facing the consequences of repeatedly “betraying” his political partners. She also claimed that the BJP ill-treated Nitish Kumar and "forced" him to contest the Rajya Sabha polls.
In a post on X, Acharya, the estranged daughter of RJD chief Lalu Yadav, asserted that Nitish Kumar himself was responsible for his current political situation and called him a "puppet of the BJP." She remarked that leaders who repeatedly abandon their allies eventually have to face the repercussions of their own decisions.
"Nitish Kumar ji, who repeatedly betrays his own allies. You are yourself responsible for being pushed into your own abyss and for your own wretched state. You are the rightful recipient of whatever is happening to you today," said Acharya, who quit politics after Mahagathbandhan's drubbing in last year's Bihar Assembly polls.
Calling Nitish Kumar a "pinnacle of opportunism", Acharya claimed that he was forced by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha election. According to her, the development stems from Kumar’s decision to walk out of the Grand Alliance (INDIA bloc) and return to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on January 28, 2024.
"This was already decided on January 28, 2024, when Nitish Kumar ji repeated his world-famous skill of somersaulting by abandoning the Mahagathbandhan. It is precisely because of his inherent compulsion to cling to the chair that Nitish Kumar ji has today become a puppet in the hands of that BJP, which is notorious for digging the political graves of its allies and burying them," she said.
She further said that Nitish Kumar had ignored warnings from several of his former socialist colleagues about aligning again with the BJP.
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