JD(U) leader criticises Union minister Giriraj Singh's

A JD(U) leader in Bihar today criticised Union minister Giriraj Singh for taking communal jibe on Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

JD(U) MLC and its state spokesman Neeraj Kumar's comment came as a reaction to Giriaj Singh's statement yesterday wherein he had accused the Congress of Muslim appeasement and alleged "Rahul Gandhi attends a beef party while in Kerala but wears a sacred thread when he goes to Gujarat".

"All elected representatives, during their swearing in, take the pledge to preserve the country's unity and integrity. Democracy depends on lok laaj (public decency). Even God can not help those who do not uphold these values in public life", Neeraj Kumar told a regional news channel here.

"In this country, as per the Constitution, every citizen has the freedom to choose his lifestyle, his food. Such utterances, however, are not going to affect us in any manner. We have never supported such views. We have always ensured that rule of law prevails in Bihar", Kumar said.

Notably, Singh's recently meeting some jailed Bajrang Dal activists accused of communal clashes in his Nawada Lok Sabha constituency and his utterances after visiting house of one of the jailed activist alleging he saw the arrests as an "ttempt to suppress the Hindus" was disapproved by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as "not acceptable."