PATNA: The ongoing spat between the BJP and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) took an ugly turn on Monday with the Jitan Ram Manjhi-led party threatening to withdraw support from the NDA government in the state.
The BJP and HAM(S) functionaries have been at the loggerheads over Manjhi’s recent controversial remark on Brahmins.
“If the four HAM(S) MLAs withdraw support from the NDA government in the state, it will automatically fall,” party spokesman Danish Rizwan told mediapersons here while reacting to BJP leader and environment and forest minister Niraj Kumar Singh Babloo’s remark that “the effect of old age was showing on Manjhi.”
Babloo had advised Manjhi to live and spend his “remaining years honourably, chanting Ram Ram for the better future of his son Santosh Kumar Suman, who is a minister in the NDA government in the state”.
“Manjhi’s remark against the pandits was not right. He is in the NDA and also a senior leader. He was given an opportunity and made CM of the state by Nitish Kumar. He should respect his own age,” Babloo said.
Babloo’s remark left Rizwan bristling with anger.
“Babloo is also in the NDA. Does he have the courage to question PM Modi who keeps saying ‘ulta-pulta’ things at his public meetings? If the NDA government falls in the state after the withdrawal of support by four HAM(S) MLAs, Babloo will be on the road. He should respect the age and experience of the people like Manjhi,” Rizwan said.
