Patna: It is a query of who utters I love you first, senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid mentioned on Saturday, with reference to his get together’s intent to forge opposition unity and take on the BJP juggernaut in Lok Sabha polls subsequent 12 months. The former Union minister drew the analogy of romance at a symposium he attended, moreover Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
“Honorable chief minister, you made many points, some bluntly and others indirectly”, Khurshid mentioned in regards to the speech of Kumar, the JD(U) boss, who had exhorted the grand previous get together to take the lead in forging opposition unity.
“As far as my understanding of my own party goes, I can assure you that your sentiments are shared by us. But the situation is akin to lovers taking their time to decide who should say I love you first”, mentioned the senior Congress chief evoking peals of laughter.
Khurshid, who retains a penchant for utilizing vibrant metaphors, a few of which have landed him within the soup, added cryptically “it happens that sometimes an inexperienced lover is uninhibited enough to make the first move”.
Showering encomiums on the Bihar CM and his deputy for giving up their previous political hostility, the previous Union minister mentioned “the Bihar model serves as a viable alternative to the Gujarat model (of Prime Minister Narendra Modi)”.
He additionally lavished reward on the CPI(ML) Liberation, which had organized the occasion and helps ‘Mahagathbandhan’ authorities in Bihar from exterior, for adapting to modified political realities.
“Red is the colour of revolution and like Kabir’s famous verse I feel we have all been painted in the same hue”, mentioned Khurshid.
