RJD claims Nitish medically alive but brain dead

RJD MP Sudhakar Singh alleges Nitish Kumar is ‘medically alive’ but ‘brain dead’

• The allegations from RJD MP Sudhakar Singh came after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was in the news for his antics.
• This allegation sparked debates about the Bihar CM’s health condition.
• “Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is only "medically alive" but "brain dead", and imposing him on the people of Bihar would be an insult to them,” Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Sudhakar Singh said.
• Sudhakar Singh also expressed confidence over the Mahagathbandhan getting a two-thirds majority in the upcoming Bihar elections.
• In an interview with PTI, Singh said that the Supreme Court’s decision to include Aadhaar Card as the 12th document for identity proof among other enumerated documents was a major victory for the marginalized sections.
• The marginalized sections were in danger of getting their names removed from the voter list amid the exercise which seeks voters to submit documents to establish citizenship of India.

What did Sudhakar Singh have to say about Nitish Kumar?

• When asked about the upcoming polls in Bihar, Sudhakar Singh who is a Lok Sabha MP from Buxar, said Nitish Kumar has “mentally retired”.
• "People are going to vote for the next generation leadership of Tejashwi Yadav. Mahagathbandhan will come in the government with a two-thirds majority,” said RJD MP Sudhakar Singh.
• RJD MP Sudhakar Singh took a jibe at Bihar Chief Minister, who has been in the news for his antics.
• During an interview with PTI, Singh talked about the Supreme Court’s decision to include Aadhaar as one of the documents for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) a major victory for the marginalized sections.
• "If you look at the Mahagathbandhan, we were only 12,000 votes behind the NDA even in the 2020 Bihar polls despite all the manipulations (by them). We were defeated by 12 votes in one seat, and in some other seats, we were defeated by 250 or 500 votes.
• "But in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, we improved our performance. Earlier, the RJD had one MP from Bihar; now we have 10 MPs,” Singh said.
• "The chief minister of Bihar is mentally retired; the people of Bihar are familiar with this," he said.
• Sudhakar Singh suggested that the NDA should fix a panel of doctors to check up on the Bihar Chief Minister.
• "Nitish Kumar is medically and biologically alive, but mentally he is dead. He is a brain-dead person. Are the 13 crore people of Bihar going to be under the leadership of a brain-dead chief minister? Those who say that want to see Bihar as a colony,” Sudhakar Singh said.

Editor’s Note

• The jibe on the Bihar Chief Minister by RJD MP Sudhakar Singh comes at a time when Nitish Kumar is on the news for his antics. The comment of Nitish Kumar being “mentally retired” was a vent out. It will be interesting to see how Nitish and Co., work around this.