Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has asked the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to clarify his stand on the issue of total ban on alcohol in the country. He said lord Krishna was the first person on this land to have enforced total prohibition. He also alleged that the RSS is practicing double standards on cow protection.
"RSS is the power behind the throne which we know as the BJP.What is the stand of the RSS on RsNasha Mukt Bharat’. RSS talks of Hindutuva and Hindu nationalism and cow protection, let them explain their stand on total prohibition in the country’’, said Nitish Kumar while addressing a rally at Ghatampur town of Kanpur nagar district on Saturday.
Asking the RSS to hold Shakhas for the stray dry cows roaming on roads rather than luring the youth with impressionable mind, Nitish Kumar said RsRs I often travel in UP by road and I find the stray cattle’s mostly the dry cows are the single biggest cause of the accidents leading to loss of precious lives besides huge loss to the economy. RSS can certainly do a great job for protecting the cows if they hold RsShakhas’ for such stray cattle’s’’.
launching a scathing attack on the RSS for cow vigilantism Nitish Kumar accused the saffron outfit of practicing double standards on cow protection.
"RSS talks of protecting the cow but their cadres assault the minorities and poor dalits in Gujarat who are practicing their traditional occupation of skinning the dead cows and at the same time the RSS and BJP leaders have no inhibition in using the shoes made out of the hide of the cow’.
Asking the people to take the photograph of the shoe wore by the RSS-BJP he said Rs ask those leaders whether their shoe was made of hide of cow, calf or the bull, they will never answer your question’’.
Target ting the RSS for opposition to culling of the wilder beast better known as RsNeel Gaay’ in Bihar, NItish Kumar said RsRs Neel Gay is damaging vast tracts of the standing crop of Arhar pulses in many areas of Bihar and the state government with the permission of the Union government ordered their killing’.
RsThe RSS should also hold RsShakha’ for protecting the Neel Gaay as the prime minister Narendra Modi has forgotten to honour his promise of providing 50 percent bonus along with the minimum support price to the farmers’’.
Nitish Kumar who is also the national president of the JD(U) urged the people to vote for the Janata Dal (United) in 2017 state assembly elections for RSS and alcohol free Uttar Pradesh. He also asked the UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to overcome his inhibitions and muster the courage to ban alcohol in the state for bright and stable political future.
"If Akhilesh Yadav has any doubts over the social revolution that has been unleashed in Bihar following the implementation of prohibition then he should send some of his confident person to his state and let him have a firsthand experience’’, said Nitish Kumar.
"People of Uttar Pradesh have done many political experiments in last few decades. You are again going to polls in few months and whole nation is watching you. This time give the JD (U) a chance for a liquor and RSS free Uttar Pradesh’’, said Nitish Kumar in Ghatampur town of Kanpur Nagar district. Town is a kurmi dominated area, the fellow caste of Nitish Kumar. With the objective making a dent in the Kurmi vote bank of the BJP Nitish Kumar has addressed series of political rallies in district like Varanasi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra and Allahabad having sizeable population of the OBCs Kurmi community.
Appreciating a recent judgement of the Supreme Court where the apex court held the adulteration in milk as heinous crime Nitish Kumar said RsRs all laws and regulations relating to food industry be made more stringent and laws for drugs and psychotropic substances for curbing the drug abuse be also made more stringent’’.
Nitish Kumar defended the recent amendment in Bihar prohibition law saying Rs a canard is being spread that Bihar government has enacted a draconian anti liquor law. Yes law has been amended to make it more effective but it’s far from being draconian’’. He also accused the BJP in Bihar saying the party had earlier supported the law in April last but they opposed the amendment and staged walk out from the state assembly’’.