PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday called Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray a 'sir phira' (crazed) for his statement that people from Bihar were "infiltrators" into Mumbai. Nitish also said Raj's threats were a challenge to the authority of the Maharashtra government as well as the Centre.
"If these governments cannot take on such a person, it is anybody's guess how they would tackle the bigger threat of terrorism," said an angry Nitish. He was particularly critical of the Congress-led Maharashtra government and said, "It appears the state government has outsourced governance and is shying away from its responsibilities."
The CM was addressing a press conference at the JD(U) office here. Reacting to Thackeray's threat of throwing out people from Bihar out of Mumbai, Nitish said, "Nobody on earth can do this and play with the dignity of Biharis, or for that matter Indians."
Nitish said the Bihar DGP has written to the Mumbai police commissioner over the arrest of a wanted people from Sitamarhi, without taking the local police into confidence. There are established rules for making arrests in other states and there is also a circular of the Union home ministry, but in this case the rules were violated. "Instead of any police officer of Maharashtra speaking on this issue, an 'aira-gaira' (worthless person) is speaking," he said.
The CM said the politics of such people was based on provocation and hatred and they survive only on negative publicity. "They stage-managed violence by beating up some taxi drivers, shooting the incident and circulating its CDs to news channels," he added. "If these fabricated CDs are not shown on TV channels, their shops will shut down," he added reacting to Raj Thackeray's latest threat to Hindi news channels. "I don't want to join issues with such a person," he said without taking Raj's name.
The CM expressed satisfaction over the all-round condemnation of MNS chief, and said all parties were united on the issue since it was related to the pride of Biharis as well as the people of other states who have a constitutional right to work and live in any part of the country without anybody's permission.
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| Nitish Kumar called MNS chief Raj Thackeray a 'sir phira' (crazed) for his statement that people from Bihar were "infiltrators" into Mumbai. |
The CM was addressing a press conference at the JD(U) office here. Reacting to Thackeray's threat of throwing out people from Bihar out of Mumbai, Nitish said, "Nobody on earth can do this and play with the dignity of Biharis, or for that matter Indians."
Nitish said the Bihar DGP has written to the Mumbai police commissioner over the arrest of a wanted people from Sitamarhi, without taking the local police into confidence. There are established rules for making arrests in other states and there is also a circular of the Union home ministry, but in this case the rules were violated. "Instead of any police officer of Maharashtra speaking on this issue, an 'aira-gaira' (worthless person) is speaking," he said.
The CM said the politics of such people was based on provocation and hatred and they survive only on negative publicity. "They stage-managed violence by beating up some taxi drivers, shooting the incident and circulating its CDs to news channels," he added. "If these fabricated CDs are not shown on TV channels, their shops will shut down," he added reacting to Raj Thackeray's latest threat to Hindi news channels. "I don't want to join issues with such a person," he said without taking Raj's name.
The CM expressed satisfaction over the all-round condemnation of MNS chief, and said all parties were united on the issue since it was related to the pride of Biharis as well as the people of other states who have a constitutional right to work and live in any part of the country without anybody's permission.
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