Raghubar Das attacks Lalu, Nitish; calls them arrogant

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today described RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar as "arrogant leaders" and called for decimation of the JD(U) government in the coming Bihar Assembly polls to usher in development and good governance.
"Both leaders - Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar - are arrogant and it is because of their collective arrogance, Bihar has slipped into a mess over the past 25 years," Das said while addressing a congregation of 'Teli Sahu Samaj' at the Sri Krishna Memorial Hall here.
"One arrogant leader's politics is family-centric and aimed at ensuring as to how his sons and daughters somehow enter the state legislature, another pursues individual- centric politics aimed at promotion of himself alone for which he can do anything," he said in a dig at Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar respectively.

"While one leader (Lalu) has not learnt any lesson from defeat of his wife (Rabri Devi) and daughter (Misa Bharti) in general elections last year and still nurtures ambition to send his sons and daughters to the state legislature, the other leader (Nitish) insulted the Dalits by removing his successor Jitan Ram Manjhi from the chief minister's post to pursue his individual centric politics," Das said.
The Jharkhand Chief Minister tore into his Bihar counterpart describing him as an ambitious persons in addition to being arrogant saying he betrayed the huge mandate in favour of the NDA in the 2010 Assembly elections so that he could fulfil his burning ambition to become Prime Minister.

"He (Nitish) must have thought if Narendra Modi can become the Prime Ministerial candidate, so could he and his this ambition led to parting ways with the NDA two years ago," Das explained.

Taking potshots at Kumar, he said the former resigned from the Chief Minister's post following JD(U)'s drubbing in the general elections so that he could avoid receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Bihar.
However, he had to eat his own words when he had to receive the visiting Prime Minister at Patna airport recently, Das said sarcastically.
The Jharkhand Chief Minister also slammed Nitish for insulting the Dalits by removing a Mahdalit chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi earlier this year and regain the post himself despite the fact that Manjhi was doing a great job.