Lalu advises Nitish to seek support of CMs at NDC meeting

"The Chief Minister's rally was a grand flop show....There was scarce crowd at the Gandhi Maidan that has capacity to gather about five lakh people," he told reporters rubbishing the JD(U)'s claim of the 'Adhikar rally' being a huge success.

Taking a dig at Kumar for being scared in the wake of massive protests greeting him during 'Adhikar yatra' in the districts, Prasad said that the D-Area separating the dais and the gathering was built at such a distance so that no object, including slippers, thrown from anyone in the crowd could reach the chief minister.

On a more serious note, the RJD supremo asked his arch rival to launch a signature campaign of the NDA chief ministers, starting with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, to seek their support on the special status issue before seeking the support of other chief ministers.

Stating that the NDC - of which the Bihar chief minister was also a member - was the only appropriate constitutional forum entrusted with the right to amend the criterion for the special status, Prasad asked Kumar to raise the issue there and said he should should not beat around the bush by accusing the Centre for any wrongdoing to Bihar.

The RJD supremo also accused Kumar of raising the pitch on the special status issue to further his political and electoral agenda in the run up to the parliamentary polls.

The Chief Minister was also trying to cover up his failures on all fronts particularly during the second stint in power, Prasad alleged.