Modi rise threatened EBC vote of some,says BJP

Sushil Kumar Modi also played the EBC card of Narendra Modi,saying: “What is wrong if the son of a poor EBC family has the chance to become PM? It is politics of convenience to call someone communal. For that matter,every BJP leader of significance has been called communal and later became secular. By that logic,Narendra Modi will also become secular after the 2014 polls.”

“The truth is that EBC votes of some people threatened to slide with Narendra Modi’s emergence,” he claimed,adding that Gujarat had been peaceful since the 2002 riots.

Amid slogans hailing Narendra Modi,some workers celebrated the split by applying colour on each other.

Sushil Modi,who refrained from making any personal attacks on Nitish Kumar,said the BJP would play the role of a constructive opposition. “We were guided by the common minimum programme. We were the ones who made compromises on several occasions and whole-heartedly supported the government’s schemes for Muslims,EBCs and Mahadalits. Can Nitish Kumar give an example when we did not cooperate or deviated from the NDA’s common agenda?”

He said calling off the alliance,especially when the JD-U had given the BJP time till December to announce the NDA PM candidate was “unfortunate and will go down as a black day in the political history of Bihar”.