'BJP has mentally retired Nitish': Kharge says NDA's internal conflict out in open; targets PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Wednesday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party present considers Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar a "burden" up of the upcoming assembly elections.Addressing a property league aft the Congress Working Committee successful Patna, Kharge said that interior struggle wrong the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was not retired successful in the unfastened and that the BJP had "mentally retired" Nitish."The interior struggle wrong the NDA confederation has present travel retired successful the open. The BJP has mentally retired Nitish Kumar, present considering him a burden," Kharge said.Additionally, Kharge said that 80% of Bihar's colonisation belongs to the OBC, EBC, and SC/ST categories and thus, radical privation a transparent caste census. "In Bihar, 80% of the colonisation belongs to OBC, EBC, SC, and ST communities, and the radical privation transparency successful caste census and preservation policies. The Congress Party and Rahul Gandhi person cornered the cardinal government, compelling it to behaviour a caste census," helium added.The Congress president besides alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised connected galore occasions to revive Bihar's sweetener industry.

This comes arsenic Congress apical brass met successful Patna for the party’s archetypal post-Independence Working Committee gathering successful Bihar.Congress held a Working Committee gathering focusing connected the assembly predetermination strategy and expanding unit connected the BJP implicit alleged "vote chori" (vote theft).The extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) gathering included imperishable and peculiar invitees, enactment main ministers, Pradesh Congress Committee presidents, and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders.Senior Congress leaders astatine the gathering included Kharge, erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi, treasurer Ajay Maken, wide secretaries KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Sachin Pilot, and Bihar Congress main Rajesh Kumar.Meanwhile, the BJP criticised the Congress-led absorption INDIA bloc. Ahead of the CWC meeting, the Bihar BJP released 2 posters suggesting a quality wrong the bloc implicit seat-sharing earlier the assembly elections.One poster stated: "The RJD is acceptable to beryllium plundered, arsenic chaos has erupted earlier the election."Malviya further claimed that the Congress holding its CWC gathering successful Bihar since Independence was the "final nail successful the coffin" for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person Tejashwi Yadav’s accidental of becoming main minister.