Use social media to counter BJP: Nitish Kumar tells JD(U) workers

Patna: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar on Wednesday advised party workers to go for greater use of social media to counter BJP “propaganda” in the coming Assembly poll in Bihar. [caption id=“attachment_2057887” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] JD(U) chief and former Bihar CM Nitish Kumar asked party members to use social media to counter BJP. PTI[/caption] Kumar, who would be the party’s face in the crucial state poll, made this advise to the JD(U) workers and leaders from across the state at the end of the two-day “Prashikshan Shivir” (training programme) at his residence in Patna. The party has decided to hold a rally at the Gandhi Maidan on 15 February next to galvanise workers for the poll, said some of those who attended the meet. Kumar also asked them to make people aware of the Ordinance for Land Acquisition and the Centre’s “failure” on returning black money and denial of special status to Bihar. Meanwhile, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi took a jibe at Nitish Kumar for finding no time to visit Muzaffarpur village where citizens suffered in arson on Sunday and instead running “Samajwad ka Pathshala” (school in socialist ideology). “He (Kumar) does not have time to visit Ajizpur village to wipe tears of victims and instead he is busy imparting knowledge of socialism which has lost its relevance in the world,” Modi said in a statement in Patna. “Nitish Kumar has joined hands with people like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad who have maligned socialism by the practice of rampant dynastic politics and promoting corruption during their rule,” he said. Sushil Modi had visited Ajizpur village under Saraiya police station of Muzaffarpur district and demanded judicial inquiry into the Sunday arson. PTI