Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Minister Chandrashekar’s Ramcharitmanas Remark, Says ‘Don’t Know What He Said’

Darbhanga, January 12: Amid the furore over Bihar Education Minister Chandrashekar’s remark on Wednesday that Ramcharitmanas, a poem based on the epic Ramayana, is divisive and spreads hatred in society, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar side-stepped the matter claiming he wasn’t aware what the minister said.

“I don’t know what he said. I haven’t heard his statement or seen anything about it in the news,” the Bihar CM told reporters in Darbhanga on Thursday, on the sidelines of the inauguration of a newly constructed planetarium. Bihar Education Minister Chandrashekher Yadav Says ‘Manu Smriti, Ram Charit Manas and MS Golwarkar’s Bunch of Thoughts Spread Hatred in Society’.

Chandrashekhar had on Wednesday stoked a major controversy claiming that Ramcharitmanas stokes animosity and discrimination in the society. The BJP came down heavily on the minister, demanding that he tenders an apology at the earliest. Vedic Scriptures Like Manusmriti Give Respect to Women, Says Delhi High Court Justice Prathiba Singh.

However, the Education minister on Thursday reiterated his earlier statement, claiming that it the BJP which should apologise for ‘not knowing facts’.

To a question on the ongoing farmers’ agitation in Buxar and the alleged police crackdown on them, the Bihar CM claimed he wasn’t aware of the facts of the case.

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