The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Wednesday stepped up its attack against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, accusing him of disrespecting women and demanding his resignation.
After staging a walk out from Bihar Assembly together with other party MLAs, RJD leader Rabri Devi attacked Nitish Kumar saying he consumes intoxicating substance before attending the Assembly session.
"Nitish Kumar consumes 'bhaang' and comes to the assembly. He disrespects women, including me... He should see the kind of work we did when we were in power. What the people around him say, he speaks the same. His party members and some BJP leaders are asking him to say such things," the former chief minister was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Tejashwi Yadav, Rabri’s son, meanwhile, sought the resignation of Nitish Kumar.
"Nitish Kumar should resign himself... Even before him, my father (Lalu Yadav) became an MP. He could not have become CM without us giving the 'Samarthan Patra'... He should go to an ashram, as he cannot run the government. What is he doing with the future of 14 crore people? Nitish Kumar's condition is not stable," he claimed.
During the Assembly session on March 7, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar sparked a political storm by accusing the RJD of promoting dynastic politics.
He took aim at Lalu Prasad Yadav for making his wife, Rabri Devi, the chief minister after his 1997 arrest in the fodder scam case.
"You (RJD leaders) are from the party in which a husband made his wife the CM. They (RJD) have made you (women MLAs of RJD) the MLA, but have you done any work for women? How much work have we done for women? Do you people (RJD) understand that? You people are in the party which has done nothing for women," Nitish Kumar had said in the Assembly.
The Bihar assembly election will be held later this year.
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