Bihar, Jharkhand are brothers, need not make comments about each other: Nitish Kumar
The Hindu
Bihar CM shrugs off his counterpart Hemant Soren’s comments on languages
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said both Jharkhand and Bihar belong to the same family.
Mr. Kumar was Hemant Soren who recently courted controversy saying the two regional languages spoken largely in Bihar — Bhojpuri and Magahi — “are borrowed languages and speakers of these languages are dominating persons”.
Mr. Kumar’s alliance partner BJP, though, had called Mr. Soren’s comment as “highly objectionable and aimed at dividing society”.
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