As Chief Minister Nitish kumar was busy conducting meetings with officials in Patna, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav launched poster war against him questioning “Why is Nitish Kumar missing?”
Tejashwi Yadav has made it into a political issue that Nitish Kumar has not ventured out of his official residence ever since Lockdown 1.0. On Monday, he unravelled a huge poster at the RJD office in Patna which was a direct attack on Nitish Kumar and said: “Nitish kumar has confined himself to his palatial house for the last 90 days. Why has he not come out? He could at least have gone to the NMCH and the PMCH hospitals.”
The opposition leader has also raised his voice over the testings being done in the state pertaining to Covid-19.
In the last 90 days, Nitish Kumar has rarely come out of his official residence, with conducting most of the government works and meetings through video conference.
After the allegations of mismanagement at quarantine centres, he even established video conference with the people there to take control of the situation. He has been interacting with the officials across the state in the same way, ensuring development work, preparations for flood control, and also ensuring skill mapping and facilitating job opportunities to lakhs of migrant labourers who returned in large numbers from the other states.
The RJD, however, has raked up the issue of prolonged absence of Nitish Kumar from public life. The RJD is now chalking out a plan of drum beating across the state to ensure “Nitish Kumar comes out of his home.”
The BJP and the JD-U have both reacted sharply to the missing poster launched by Tejashwi Yadav. BJP spokesperson, Nikhil Anand said, “Nitish Kumar has been working 24×7 for the state. But Tejashwi should explain where was he hiding for 55 days?”
Launching counter attack on Yadav, JD-U minister Neeraj Kumar said: “He should put out posters about the Ill-gotten property of his family and the third son of Lalu Yadav.”
The poster war has become the new tool for both the ruling party as well as the oppositions, to counter and charge allegations against one another in the state. As the elections are knocking on the door, the poster was is all set to escalate.
