President of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Ramvilas Paswan on Monday termed the animosity between Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar as a ‘political stunt’ and a ‘fixed match of wrestling’ aimed at diverting people’s attention from crucial issues like secularism, social justice, development and corruption in Gujarat.
Interacting with the media in Ahmedabad, Paswan stated that Nitish Kumar's objection to making Modi National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) prime ministerial candidate is like a fixed match of wrestling (mili kushti).
"Nitish’s objection seems like a meticulous move aimed at polarising minority votes in Gujarat so that majority Hindu votes could swing in Modi's favour in the forthcoming assembly polls," the former union minister said.
Paswan-led LJP, whose electoral base is mostly confined to JDU- BJP-ruled Bihar, has decided to field candidates in all 182 Assembly seats, in Gujarat."We shall contest elections on all 182 seats in the state," the Dalit leader said.
The party will contest elections in Gujarat on planks of secularism, social justice, development and corruption, added Paswan, a political rival of Nitish Kumar. "Minorities in Gujarat are living under fear. In more than 100 villages of the state, people from Scheduled Castes have been forced to leave," he alleged.
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