Snake has entered your home: Union minister to Lalu Prasad on allying with Nitish

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New
Delhi/Patna,
Aug
10:
BJP
leader
and
Union
Minister
Giriraj
Singh
on
Wednesday
took
a
dig
at
Lalu
Prasad
Yadav
referring
to
the
RJD
supremo’s
old
remarks
in
which
he
had
described
Nitish
Kumar
as
a
“snake”
and
said
that
now
the
same
snake
has
entered
Yadav’s
house.
When
Nitish
Kumar
snapped
ties
with
the
RJD
in
2017
and
allied
with
the
BJP
again,
Yadav
in
a
tweet
described
him
as
a
snake
that
sheds
its
skin
every
two
years.

Sharing
Yadav’s
tweet,
Giriraj
Singh,
who
has
often
been
critical
of
Kumar,
on
Wednesday
said,
“The
snake
has
entered
your
home.”
He
said
that
Nitish
Kumar
considers
himself
prime
minister
material
and
his
ambition
leads
him
to
ditch
the
people’s
mandate
and
jump
to
the
other
side
to
form
the
government.

“One
who
cannot
become
chief
minister
on
his
own,
dreams
about
becoming
the
prime
minister,”
Singh
said.

He
also
dared
the
JD(U)
chief
to
seek
a
fresh
mandate
from
the
people
of
Bihar.
Even
when
the
BJP
was
in
alliance
with
JD(U),
Singh
had
many
times
expressed
his
reservations
about
various
decisions
of
Kumar
and
his
stance
on
various
ideological
and
Hindutva-related
issues.

Bihar:
Nitish
Kumar
swears
in
as
CM
for
8th
time;
Tejashwi
Yadav
to
be
Dy
CM

A
dharna
was
held
in
front
of
the
BJP
office
at
Birchand
Patel
Marg
in
Patna
that
was
attended
by
all
party
MPs
and
MLAs
from
Bihar
who
vowed
to
“expose”
the
71-year-old
JD(U)
leader
through
agitations
at
district
and
block
levels
later
this
week.

“There
is
no
other
reason
for
the
turnaround
except
his
prime
ministerial
ambitions
which
make
him
envious
of
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi.
He
should
first
try
to
win
a
state
election
on
his
own,
without
using
an
alliance
as
a
crutch”,
said
Union
minister
Giriraj
Singh.