PATNA/NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he had no option but to walk out of the grand alliance as continuing in the coalition would have meant compromising with corruption.
Kumar, who recently jettisoned Lalu Prasad’s RJD and went back to the NDA fold after a 4-year hiatus, forming a coalition Government with BJP and Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP, also praised Narendra Modi, saying “nobody has the strength to take on the prime minister.”
“There were corruption charges and cases were filed by the CBI (against Lalu Prasad and family). I had only told them to come out with proper answers. Instead, they made fun of me saying whether I was a CBI official or the police,” he told a press conference.
“Laluji did not give any clarification on corruption charges. How could I remain silent after having talked about zero tolerance to corruption? Now I have a feeling that they did not have a proper answer,” Kumar said. (AGENCIES)
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