This political opportunism must stop: BJP MP on Nitish switch

Describing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s volte-face as “political opportunism”, BJP MP from West Bengal Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said there should be an end to it.

Ghosh, the former president of West Bengal BJP, was speaking to reporters after Kumar dumped the RJD and Congress, and joined hands with the BJP to form a new government in the state.

“A politician usually takes oath as CM once during a five-year term. But Nitish Kumar is such a politician, who takes oath at least twice or thrice during a five-year term, and that too from different camps each time,” he said.

“I think this is political opportunism and it is high time that such things must stop,” he added.

State BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya refused to comment on Ghosh’s statement.

However, he said, “The fact is a loveless marriage cannot go on forever. The JD(U)-RJD tie-up was a loveless marriage. This was bound to happen. Nitish Kumar, by returning to the NDA, is atoning his political sins, which he had committed by dumping the NDA and disregarding the people’s mandate.”

(With agency inputs)