Patna: There seems to be no end to controversial statements from Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. After the upper caste remarks, Manjhi on Sunday openly admitted that he once refused to help a lady harassed by Yadavs due to vote bank politics.
"A lady came to me in distress when I was a minister. She was being harassed by Yadavs but I refused to save her. I kept mum because Yadavs had 50,000 votes in that area. I would have lost that vote had I acted," he said.
Manjhi had recently stirred a controversy by terming the upper caste people as 'foreigners and descendants of Aryan race'. The remark had invited criticism from all political parties with BJP slamming him for 'stoking caste tension' in the state.
JD(U) MLAs Anant Singh and Sunil Pandey have sought removal of Manjhi over his upper caste-foreigners remark. Even RJD and Congress, who are supporting the Manjhi ministry, advised the CM to concentrate on implementing roadmap of Nitish Kumar for Bihar instead of raking controversy through such comments.
However, the Bihar Chief Minister had clarified his stand and said that he was misunderstood. "To boost morale of STs and SCs I had said this and never discussed about who came or went out of the country and at what point of time," he said.
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