"How will you (Kumar) explain your unadulterated praise for the Gujarat Chief Minister as contained in the CD being played out by the electronic news channels? Does protocol require a visiting Central minister to exhort a state chief minister to play national role?" Prasad asked while grinning with joy at the consternation of the Chief Minister.
"Have you eulogised any other chief minister in such a manner and asked him/her to play a national role?" he asked
Charging Kumar with parting ways with the BJP to woo Muslim voters in Bihar during the next general elections, the RJD supremo claimed that the former stood thoroughly exposed for claiming 'secular' image after enjoying fruits of power with the BJP for the past 17 years.
Yadav charged the Chief Minister of walking out of the NDA on the BJP's prime ministerial candidate issue at the behest of L K Advani.
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