After JD(U) MP’s shaadi and shraadh remark ahead of the Ram temple inauguration built on the site of the razed Babri mosque in Ayodhya, a senior Bihar minister Ashok Choudhary has now stirred a major controversy claiming the Indian democracy is strong because the Mughals ruled India. The minister added that unlike British, the mughals did not rob the country of its wealth.
“Hamara loktantra isiliye mazboot hai kyuki hamare upar mughlon ka shasan raha (Our democracy is strong because we were ruled by the Mughals),” the Building Construction Minister of Bihar, Ashok Choudhary, was quoted as saying by Times of India.
Notably, Choudhary is considered as a close aide to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. In a major irony, the Bihar minister accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of “marketing the Ram temple”.
“Politicisation of temple is not fair. The government in New Delhi needs to think about taming the shooting inflation and unemployment. How can a person chant the name of Ram in an empty stomach,” Choudhary said, adding one can’t expect the country to become the third biggest economy until the basic issues confronting the general masses are tackled.
Bihar Minister Slams BJP
Responding to the claims of the BJP on the ongoing power tussle in JD(U), Choudhary said such talks as “nonsense”. Denying reports that JD(U) is becoming weak in the state, the minister claimed that the Chief Minister stands strong and the party is fully united.
In a significant political shift, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was named the new president of the Janata Dal (United) after Rajiv Ranjan aka Lalan Singh tendered his resignation from the post.
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