"Sushil Modi has become 'Nitishophobic' as a result of which he can not help but dream about the former chief minister even in his sleep," minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh told reporters here.
Singh was responding to the former deputy chief minister's attack on Kumar for alleged irregularities in tendering for projects related to the Major District Roads (MDRs) in the state earlier this year.
Singh also questioned Modi's financial management during his eight year-long stint as the finance and commercial taxes minister and said that the latter had proved himself "inefficient".
Referring to the alleged mismanagement of AC/DC bills drawing sharp criticism from the Auditor and Comptroller General of India (CAG), he claimed, for some of his earlier decisions as finance minister, the development process had slowed down in the state.
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