As the Bihar Assembly elections entered the third and final phase, there is an open clash between Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and ally BJP\u2019s campaigner Yogi Adityanath over \u201cinfiltrators\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n
Adityanath, who is CM of neighbouring state Uttar Pradesh, at a campaign in Bihar’s Kathihar, mentioned \u201cthrowing out all infiltrators\u201d, which Kumar has said is \u201cfaltu baat<\/em>\u201d (nonsense). There have been earlier differences between the BJP and Nitish Kumar\u2019s Janata Dal United over the implementation of the CAA and NRC.<\/p>\n Ahead of the third phase of Assembly election in the state, the differences on the issue of alleged \u201cinfiltrators\u201d is significant. When the CAA was enacted in December, it led to nation-wide protests as many alleged that along with the NRC, it could target the Muslim minorities. Nitish Kumar\u2019s reactions again brought to the fore his differences with his ally, the BJP, on the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cModiji has found a solution to the infiltration issue,\u201d Adityanath said at the said rally, adding that the Citizenship Amendment Act would ensure that those who try to breach security of the country would be thrown out. Later, Kumar referred to Adityanath\u2019s campaign against alleged infiltrators \u2013 without directly mentioning him by name \u2013 as \u201cmalicious\u201d and assured people that they all belong to the country and \u201cno one dares throw out people\u201d.<\/p>\n He said that the effort of the government is to work for unity and harmony and only that can lead to progress. \u201cAnd these people only want to create divides, they have no other work,\u201d Kumar said. He even took to Twitter to say this. Adityanath has been campaigning in Bihar as part of the coalition between Nitish Kumar’s JDU and the BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nitish Kumar’s ideological rift with the BJP out in the open again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":10803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[220,277,387,460,57,63,319,37,87],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-nation","tag-anti-caa-protests","tag-assam-nrc","tag-assembly-elections-2021","tag-bihar-election-2020","tag-bjp","tag-janata-dal-united","tag-nitish-kumar","tag-nrc","tag-yogi-adityanath"],"yoast_head":"\n