In a step that could open fresh communal acrimonies in Bihar’s politics, the RJD on Wednesday vowed not to allow the RSS to organise conferences in Bihar when then party comes to power in the state after the Assembly polls in November.
The RJD, which has for long been demanding a ban on the RSS and flayed Bihar’s JD(U)-BJP government for allowing the “communal RSS to expand its base in the state” during the organisation’s national executive meeting at Rajgir in October last year, announced a few measures the party would like to implement in Bihar when it forms, if at all, the next government.
Presenting the RJD as the saviour of secularism in Bihar and unable to hide the party’s triumphalism ahead of its time, senior RJD leader and deputy leader of the Opposition in Bihar assembly, Shakeel Ahmed Khan, said: “When we form the government, Bihar will become a secular state with total social justice. No RSS conclaves will be allowed in Bihar during our tenure. Our government will complete its full term in 2015 and seek a renewal of tenure on the basis of its work. This government has been such a failure that Muslims do not have clean water to end roza in the month of Ramzan now.”
This government has also nearly killed Urdu in Bihar,” Mr Khan, a former minister in the RJD government, told reporters at the RJD state headquarters.