Jharkhand Chief Minister and BJP leader Raghubar Das on Sunday termed his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar as “dummy CM” and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad as the “actual CM” of Bihar.
The way Manmohan Singh was a dummy Prime Minister, while Sonia Gandhi was the actual PM during the UPA rule at the Centre, Nitish Kumar is a dummy CM and Lalu Prasad is the actual CM in the present grand alliance government (in Bihar).Raghubar Das
He also came down heavily on Lalu for “cheating people” in the name of social justice for the past 20-25 years.
Training his guns at Lalu Prasad and his family, Das alleged that the poor from the Yadav community still live in huts and eke out their livelihoods by selling milk, while the “fortunes of Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi and Misa (Bharti) changed”.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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