Kushwaha Threatens to 'Expose' Nitish Kumar

Patna: Aug. 18, 2008

A livid Upendra Kushwaha, the state president of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), at a press conference in Patna on Monday, threatened to 'spill the beans' on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, in a retaliatory action against his humiliating eviction from the government bungalow this Sunday.

"I know Nitish Kumar inside-out. I know his present as well his past. He had better not test my patience or I will be forced to open my mouth that will cause huge embarrassment to the Chief Minister," Kushwaha, a former Janata Dal (U) leader who switched party last year, said.

The NCP leader also expressed threat on his life though he failed to elaborate on it leaving it for the reporters to interpret his presumptions.

Accusing the NDA government of acting out of personal animosity, Kushwaha said his occupation of the government bungalow on 30 Bailey Road was not illegal by any means as it was the Chief Minister himself who had promised to allocate that house to him at the existing market rental price.

"Nitish Kumar has stabbed me in the back. The way they treated my 70-year old mother and my wife was extremely low and I had never dreamed such treatment from the Chief Minister," the NCP leader said.

Never the one to not pull the caste card, Kushwaha said his eviction was an insult to the entire Kushwaha community which would severely punish the NDA in the next state elections.

Meanwhile, youths aligned with the NCP in Patna on Monday burnt the effigy of Nitish Kumar.

Parroting the party memo, the students said the Chief Minister would be given a fitting reply if he continued to try the party's patience.