Nitish Kumar Shares Stage With Telangana's KCR, Lashes Out At Centre

Mr Kumar, who made the concluding remarks, expressed anguish over the Narendra Modi government's stout refusal to accept his plea for giving special category status to Bihar.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday lashed out at the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and criticised its "excessive prachaar-prasaar" (publicity) besides its alleged lack of sensitivity towards the needs of the states.

Addressing a function here alongside K Chandrasekhar Rao, his Telangana counterpart, Mr Kumar took a veiled dig at BJP, which has undertaken an aggressive campaign to expand its base in the southern state.

"Your adversaries speak a lot against you. Little do they realise what stuff you are made of. You were the one whose single-minded struggle led to the creation of Telangana. The people will never desert you", Mr Kumar, the de facto leader of the JD(U), said. His teaming with 'KCR', as Mr Rao is popularly called, is being seen as an important step in the direction of achieving opposition unity.

Mr Kumar's speech was preceded by KCR giving cheques of Rs 10 lakh each to five soldiers from the state who were killed in the stand-off with Chinese troops in Galwan valley of Ladakh in 2020.