JD(U)-BJP combine attacks Tej Pratap Yadav over "no entry" remark

RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav's comment that he intended to put up a "no entry" board at his mother's house here for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar drew a sharp attack from the ruling JD(U)-BJP coalition today.

"I wish to put up a board proclaiming no entry for uncle Nitish Kumar here, at this bungalow," Tej Pratap Yadav told reporters yesterday outside former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi's official residence on 10, Circular Road here.

The former state health minister was responding to a question about a statement made by his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav last week wherein he said that the door for Kumar, who is said to be growing uncomfortable in the BJP-led NDA, to return to the Grand Alliance was closed.

The JD(U) national general secretary K C Tyagi said the party had never asked to rejoin the Grand Alliance in the first place.

"It appears the two brothers are competing to prove who can be more boorish. Our reservations about dynasty politics are turing out to be true," Tyagi told PTI over phone.

Tyagi said the JD(U) would consider it "insulting and demeaning" to be associated with "dirt like RJD."
He said Tej Pratap Yadav had "given up decency" in speaking about Kumar, "to whose goodwill he and his brother owed their entry into the state assembly."