It took 17 years for Nitish Kumar to realise that BJP is a bad party. As a matter of fact, two things have started haunting him. One is that the presence of Narendra Modi at the top will cut drastically his own chances of becoming Prime Minister, and the other that he will be losing a big vote bank of Muslims for the same reason. Even now, Nitish praises Atal-Advani duo. Does he mean to say that Vajpayee and Advani were Good Samaritans? Is it not a fact that these two people were the chief architects of modern day communalism and they only protected Modi after Gujarat carnage? Nitish could also have resigned from the Union Railway Ministry immediately after the Gujarat riots if he really meant secularism. Now the big question is: is Nitish’s opposition to Modi a sop to the Muslim vote-bank?
K. Malikul Azeez
Chennai, TN