This is first time that Bihar’s Modi spoke contrary to what his chief minister had said on the issue. In fact only a few days back the Bihar deputy chief minister was critical of the Gujarat chief minister’s style of politics, especially on the issue of Sanjay Joshi episode. Both Nitish and Sharad, on the other hand, had strongly flayed Narendra Modi for his remarks and asked him to look within his own state.By stating that there is ‘nothing wrong’in Gujarat CM’s remarks Sushil Modi had, in a way, consciously distanced himself from the Janata Dal (United).

Till recently, he was considered one of the strongest supporters of Nitish Kumar within the BJP. For his pro-Nitish stand he had repeatedly been criticized by his own party leaders. Modi of Bihar said that the Gujarat chief minister was warning his party cadre against the vices of caste politics and never meant anything against Bihar and UP. Sushil Modi blamed the media for twisting Narendra Modi’s remarks as if he was targeting the Nitish government.

But the moot question, the political observers are asking, is: are Nitish and Sharad so naïve as to react so sharply just on the basis of media reporting. After all they never referred to Lalu-Rabri regime, which ended seven and a half years back.