A ruling BJP legislator who stirred a hornet’s nest here by calling Nitish Kumar a “chief minister of circumstances” has been served a show-cause notice by the saffron party. Bihar BJP disciplinary committee head Vinay Singh has slapped party MLC Tunna ji Pandey with the notice for his “amaryadit” (uncharitable) statement against the CM.
“Pandey has been asked to furnish a reply within 10 days explaining why the party should not initiate any action against him,” Singh told PTI on Thursday. The saffron party MLC created unrest within the ruling NDA coalition when he said that RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav was the one who won people’s mandate for the post of the chief minister, but Nitish Kumar got the chair “circumstantially” — drawing flak from his party leadership.
Unrepentant, he further told a TV channel that he would like to know where lies the mistake in pointing out that the “leader of the party (JD-U) that came third (in the polls) has become the chief minister”. Lalu Prasad’s RJD emerged as the number-one party in the 243-member state assembly during last years assembly elections, followed by the BJP and the JD(U).