BJP justifies House boycott

Bihar BJP justified its boycott of Assembly sitting on a holiday today alleging it was done to facilitate Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to get better media coverage for his speech on the Governor's address.
"Today remained a black day in the Parliamentary history of Bihar when sitting was called on a holiday despite opposition boycott," senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said in a statement.
Modi claimed that members of the ruling coalition had said in the Business Advisory committee that because of the Union budget on February 29, the CM's speech on Governor's address would not get adequate coverage in media and the sitting be preponed to Saturday from Monday.

"The CM could have listened to the Union budget which would be presented at 11 AM and given his speech in the Assembly at 2 PM to avoid clash of time," said Modi, who is leader of opposition in Legislative Council.
He also mocked at Kumar's speech on the motion on Governor's address in the Assembly today in the absence of opposition members.
"Actually, CM Nitish Kumar is a proponent of such type of democracy in which there is no opposition and he gets opportunity to make one-sided assertions," Modi alleged, who was the deputy to Kumar during NDA rule, said.

Programmes of NDA leaders had earlier been fixed for today and there was no point attending the House on a holiday, he said.

Leaders of the grand secular alliance, however, attacked BJP on the House boycott.
Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav told reporters that in a bid to shine in its own brand of politics, the BJP boycotted the sitting today.
"They knew that their baseless allegations would stand nowhere before the ruling coalition. Hence they decided to keep off from the sitting," Tejaswi Yadav, who is also RJD Legislature party leader, said.
Parliamentary Affairs minister Shrawan Kumar attacked BJP saying they have no faith in the Parliamentary democracy.

Congress state president and minister Ashok Choudhary also criticised the BJP over the boycott.