Patna: Apparently distancing himself from suggestions that he was targeting Narendra Modi, Senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said his comment made at the recent party conclave that triggered a controversy was not against anybody. "I had also praised former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the successful run of NDA coalition...How can it (the comment) be construed as comment against somebody," Kumar said, addressing a programme on the birth anniversary of Veer Kunwar Singh in Patna.
While speaking at the conclave, Kumar had said, "Nobody should think that the country can be run by force....Sometimes you will have to wear a cap, sometimes you will have to sport a 'tilak'. This country is like this." This comment was thought to be a reference to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's refusal to put on a skull cap given by a Muslim cleric in Gujarat in September 2011.
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