Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday clarified that he never apologised to former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the unruly incident which had rocked the State legislative Council on Thursday. Modi said like several other leaders of the legislative Council he had expressed regret over the incident, but there was nothing personal about it.
“I’d regretted over the unfortunate incident which had happened in the State legislative Council two days ago when some members nearly came to blows. Of course, this was regrettable incident, and we all realised the need to end the matter,” he said. “But there was no need to extend any personal apology to Kumar,” Modi told The Pioneer.
He was responding to a report in this paper that he had both expressed regret over the incident and said sorry to Kumar or the JD(U) if any BJP member has done anything wrong. Members of both parties JD(U) and BJP were involved in pushing and shoving against each other on Thursday in the State Council when a JD(U) member made unsavory remarks against Modi when he raised questions related to curtailment of scholarship for backward and extremely backward class students.
later, Modi and other BJP leaders had charged former Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Kumar for "instigating" his party members. Taking offence over the charge Kumar later said that he felt hurt over this and would not attend the Council until an inquiry committee absolved his name from the charges. To end the stand-off, the chairman of the Council summoned an all-party meeting on Friday in which Modi expressed his regret and requested Kumar to attend the House.