Even as a case was registered at a Bihar court against JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Tuesday for his unseemly personal remarks about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, equally indecorous comments and charges were made by senior leaders of the BJP, RJD and the Congress as they spoke on Mr Yadav’s words.
The court of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) in Muzaffarpur admitted a complaint filed by local Congress leader Umashankar Singh under Sections 153, 292 and 506 of the IPC against Mr Yadav, who had said in his campaign speech at Fatuha on Monday that the Congress youth icon “should be thrown into the Ganga”. CJM R.C. Malviya fixed October 29 to hear the case.
Undeterred by the growing condemnation of Mr Yadav’s controversial public comments in the middle of Bihar’s ongoing Assembly polls, senior BJP leader and Bihar minister Giriraj Singh vehemently defended the JD(U) chief, who, however, had already clarified that his comments were not targeted at any person.
“Rahul Gandhi is a symbol of the sins of the Nehru clan. The nation will have to endure the consequences of their political sins for several decades. Therefore this political sin should be dumped in the Ganga,” said Giriraj Singh, who was in the news recently for strongly advocating invitation to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for campaigning in Bihar till the BJP leadership decided otherwise.
Senior BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain also defended Mr Yadav’s words and dismissed the protests by the Congress. “The Congress suffers from amnesia. The party has forgotten how Manish Tewari used lowly language for Nitin Gadkari recently and all Congress leaders had kept quiet”.
Congress leader Jitin Prasada, commenting on Mr Yadav’s jibes at Mr Gandhi, suggested that the JD(U) chief should instead be thrown into the Ganga. “He (Yadav) is a man who has travelled from Jabalpur to Bihar by spreading the poison of casteism all the way,” said Mr Prasada.
Former JD(U) MP Prabhunath Singh, who is currently in the RJD, also supported Sharad Yadav and attacked the Congress. “We also say Nitish Kumar should be thrown into the Ganga,” he said.