RSS slams Nitish Kumar, says Prime Minister should be pro-Hindutva

Mangalore Today News Network/ IBN

New Delhi June 20, 2012 : A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar reportedly targeted Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the NDA should announce a secular Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the RSS on Wednesday come out in support of Modi, boosting the Gujarat leader’s prime ministerial ambitions.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat backed Modi as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and took on Nitish Kumar. Bhagwat said the country should have Prime Minister who propounds Hindutva.

"To keep alive the Hindutva ideology, the Hindu samaaj should come together. And the country should have a Prime Minister who believes in that ideology or propounds that view," said Bhagwat. The RSS chief also slammed Nitish and said that he is scared to call himself a Hindu.

Modi and Nitish have been at loggerheads recently with Modi blaming Bihar’s laggard growth on casteist politics.

In an interview to the national daily ’Economic Times’, Nitish had insisted that the NDA should name its Prime Ministerial candidate before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and the candidate must have secular credentials and a liberal frame of mind.

The Nitish-Modi rivalry has been on a high for the past few days. Modi took a dig at politicians from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for what the Gujarat Chief Minister calls resorting to caste based politics. Nitish had then said that Modi, who has been a constant irritant in the JD(U)-BJP coalition ties in Bihar, should mind his own business instead of making comments on others.

"One should think about one’s own situation (Bihar par tippani karne walon ko apne halaat ke bare me sochana chahiye)", he had told reporters in reply to a question when asked for his reaction to Modi’s remarks targeting Bihar leaders.

Courtesy : IBN