JD-U Leader Equates Lalu with the Thackerays
Patna: February 22, 2008
Janata Dal (U) leaders in Bihar, after an embarrassing opening day budget session of the state Assembly on Friday, blasted the opposition parties led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) saying there was not much difference between the Bihar opposition and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray since both believed in destructive politics.
JD-U state president Rajiv Ranjan Singh, following the disruption of Bihar Governor R. S. Gavai's speech on the opening day of the state Assembly, said the opposition, by their callous acts, had insulted and degraded the sanctity of the Assembly and someone should teach them the proper etiquettes that is expected from the public representatives.
"By behaving in disruptive behavior, the opposition leaders are stooping to Raj Thackeray's level. In fact, both are the two sides of the same coin," Singh said taking strong exception to the opposition's attempt to link the Governor with the likes of Thackeray and other extremists in Maharashtra.
Earlier Gavai, who is a Maharashtrian, shrugged off the opposition leaders boorish behavior saying he did not take their protest personally.
"Just like Raj Thackeray, who is an irrelevant factor in the nation's politics, is trying to stir up communal trouble to gain a political foothold in Maharashtra, the opposition leaders in Bihar are also engaging in grandstanding in the hope of gaining their lost public support," the JD-U leader said.
Echoing Singh's sentiments, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi also lashed out at the opposition saying they had nothing of any value to discuss or contribute in the state building process and that is why they had adopted the politics of disruption, hooliganism, and personal attacks on the Governor and other leaders who did not subscribe to their kind of politics.
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