Nitish defends parting ways with NDA

Defending stoutly his decision to part ways with the NDA in the wake of his Gujarat counterpart's elevation as the BJP poll panel chief, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today suggested to adopt a high moral ground, saying that he did what he had promised a year ago.
"I had decided last year to part ways with the NDA apparently anticipating development within the BJP and Modi's imminent rise in the saffron party hierarchy and delivered my decision two months ago after the latter was made his party's poll panel chief," Kumar told reporters here after his favourite 'Janata Durbar' without taking Modi's name.

However, the BJP is responsible for his decision to break away from the NDA, Kumar said referring to the BJP senior leaders' failure to stop the Gujarat Chief Minister's rise in the party hierarchy.
"In the wake of developments in the BJP, whatever decision I have taken is correct one....It was necessary and I had expressed my intent last year only," the chief minister said and added that he was not shedding tears for the split like others (BJP leaders) are doing.
Maintaining a tough posture, Kumar said, "come what may.....I don't care for any consequence," he said defending his decision to split from the NDA.

"I speak less, but do remember and act upon whatever I say," he said.
The chief minister said that he was not in the habit of forgetting anything said and done by him, but others have forgotten what they have said in the past about the former.