Defending stoutly his
decision to part ways with the NDA in the wake of his Gujarat counterpart's
elevation as the BJP poll panel chief, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today
suggested to adopt a high moral ground, saying that he did what he had promised
a year ago. "I had decided last year to part ways with the NDA apparently
anticipating development within the BJP and Modi's imminent rise in the saffron
party hierarchy and delivered my decision two months ago after the latter was
made his party's poll panel chief," Kumar told reporters here after his
favourite 'Janata Durbar' without taking Modi's name. However, the BJP is responsible
for his decision to break away from the NDA, Kumar said referring to the BJP
senior leaders' failure to stop the Gujarat Chief Minister's rise in the party
hierarchy. "In the wake of developments in the BJP, whatever decision I
have taken is correct one....it was necessary and I had expressed my intent
last year only," the chief minister said and added that he was not
shedding tears for the split like others (BJP leaders) are doing. Maintaining a
tough posture, Kumar said, "come what may.....I don't care for any
consequence," he said defending his decision to split from the NDA.
"I speak less, but do remember and act upon whatever I say," he said.
The chief minister said that he was not in the habit of forgetting anything
said and done by him, but others have forgotten what they have said in the past
about the former.
