Sushil Modi rebukes Tejashwi over ‘jamaat’ jibes at BJP | India News – Newz9

PATNA: Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi Thursday slammed RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav for not directly drawing parallels between the explosion of Covid-19 circumstances at the state BJP headquarters right here and the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi in March.
More than 100 folks, together with celebration leaders and others employed for operating varied errands at the BJP’S Birchand Patel Marg workplace, had despatched their samples for examination on Monday, and take a look at experiences the next day confirmed that 24, together with 4 BJP workplace-bearers, had contracted the virus.
“They are holding gatherings in the name of virtual rallies and spreading coronavirus. To which jamaat (creed) do these people belong,” has since been an oft-repeated wisecrack by the chief of the opposition, who has kept away from mentioning the Islamic organisation by title, whereas utilizing the pun to make it clear what he was hinting at.
The barbs have riled the BJP to no finish, given the celebration’s vociferous criticism of the congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi, the place tons of of overseas delegates had taken half, and on which an enormous nation-huge spike was blamed when the pandemic was in its early phases.
The deputy CM, who has usually been at loggerheads with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his household, got here out with a stinging tweet aimed at the chief of the opposition within the meeting, with out referring to him by title.
“Any individual or premises can fall prey to a global pandemic like coronavirus. The viral infection has infected the likes of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Prince Charles, the acting chairman of Bihar legislative council and one of the RJD’s national vice-presidents,” mentioned Modi in his tweet.
The senior BJP chief was referring to Awadhesh Narain Singh, who examined constructive for Covid-19 a couple of days after administering oath of workplaces to 9 newly-elected MLCs, and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, a staunch Lalu loyalist who was recognized with the illness a month in the past.
“Should all these people be taunted for getting infected? If despite all precautions, those frequenting the Patna High Court, the Raj Bhavan and the BJP state headquarters ended up catching the contagion, do they warrant a comparison to the foreign Jamaatis,” the deputy CM mentioned.
“Had the RJD’s young leadership learnt a bit of social courtesy, we would not have heard utterances about skinning the prime minister alive,” he added.
The BJP chief was referring to an notorious comment by Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav a few years in the past. The maverick RJD chief had hit the roof upon downgrading of the safety of his father, who ended up behind bars shortly after due to convictions in fodder rip-off circumstances.
“If anything untoward happens to my father, Narendra Modi will be held responsible for that. He will be skinned alive (chamdi udhed denge),” the mercurial RJD chief had mentioned.