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Patna, Sep 2 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of being a "puppet" in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.He also claimed that the saffron party-led government at the Centre is selling assets created by the Congress in the name of National Monetisation Pipeline."Nitish Kumar has transformed himself into the RSS-BJP mould.
He is just a puppet CM in the hands of the PM and the BJP.
He cannot be a PM material at all,” Singh told reporters here.Kumar"s party, the Janata Dal (United) which is an ally of the BJP at the Centre as well as in the state, recently said he is not in the race for the post of the prime minister though he has all the qualities required to become one.
The CM, however, disapproved of the statement.Singh claimed that Kumar is working under tremendous pressure of the BJP and that is why chapters on freedom fighter and socialist leader Jai Prakash Narayan have been omitted from the post-graduate syllabus of a university named after him in the state.Chapters on another socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia has also been removed from the political science syllabus in Jai Prakash University at Chhapra in Saran district, he said.Kumar and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad were followers of Narayan.Prasad has slammed the Nitish Kumar government for removing the two leaders from the PG syllabus of JP University.“Thirty years back I had established JP University in the name of Jayaprakash Narayan in my karmbhoomi.
Now, in the same university, this sanghi government and officials toeing its agenda are removing the ideology of JP-Lohia from the syllabus.
This cannot be tolerated.