Patna sources stated that gloves were off on tuesday between the bihar bjp and prashant kishor, vice-president of chief minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), whose outspokenness on contentious issues like the caa, NRC and sharing of seats in the assembly polls next year, has left a large section of his party flummoxed and the ally rankled.
Meanwhile after raising the BJP's hackles last month by opposing the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which the JD(U) supported in parliament, and triggering a storm two days ago with the contention that the CM's party must contest more seats than its ally, Kishor intensified the political heat with a frontal attack on deputy chief minister sushil kumar modi and furthermore Kishor expressed bemusement on twitter at the 'vyakhyan' (discourse) from sushil modi on coalition dharma, and made a close-to-the-bone remark about "circumstances" that helped the veteran bjp leader return as deputy in 2017, despite his party having lost the assembly polls two years before.
Apparently his jibe at sushil modi was prompted by a couple of tweets of the latter on the previous day wherein the wily bjp leader had refrained from mentioning the JD(U) vice president by name, but made snide remarks about his "business interests" trumping his political commitment and benefiting the opposition. Moreover mounting attacks on Kishor, whose company IPAC has among its clients bjp baiters like mamata banerjee, arvind kejriwal and chandrababu naidu, leaders of the saffron party sought to remind the election strategist-turned-politician that it was Sushil Modi's sustained campaign highlighting Lalu Prasad's complicity in the fodder scam that paved the way for the ouster of the mighty RJD from power.
