Nitish sets Topi, Tilak conditions to negate Modi’s PM prospects

Nitish Kumar has declared war against Narendra Modi, albeit without naming him, on the central issue of the Prime Ministerial nominee of the NDA. The Bihar chief minister has presented the BJP leadership with a most difficult task — count me out of the coalition from the moment you decide on handing over leadership to Modi, was an emphatic message he sent out today. His conditions are clear, a leader can only be one who is comfortable with Islamic skull cap and Hindu Tika, “jise topi bhi pahanana padega aur tika bhi lagala hoga”, a sharp negation of Modi who had refused to wear a skull cap during his Sadbhawna Yatra.

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