Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday accused the Centre of adopting double standard and questioned its commitment to rule of law going by the manner in which the NDA government, BJP and RSS have put up a united face to defend External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the Lalit Modi controversy.
"Going by manner in which the NDA government, BJP and RSS have closed ranks to defend Swaraj, it is clear that the BJP has a double standard in enforcement of rule of law against those people it likes and those it does not,"he told reporters on the sidelines of Janata Durbar at the chief minister's official residence.
Kumar alleged that in case of dear ones, the BJP goes all out in helping out such people even if they have committed a crime, but strong action is taken against those people it does not like.
He said as far as he was concerned the saffron party has made it abundantly clearly that it pursues a policy of double standard in enforcement of rule of law.
"Apna admi kuch bhi ho, use bachana hai..Madad karna hai (In the case of own people, they must be rescued, helped out)," the Bihar Chief Minister said and charged the NDA government with adopting a double standard despite claiming itself to be proponent of rule of law.
"Tell me in how many cases the humanitarian ground has been invoked?" Kumar asked and described as 'dangerous situation' being created by those who have rallied behind the beleaguered External Affairs Minister in toeing her line that she had helped out the former IPL Commissioner, a fugitive in the money laundering case being pursued against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) since 2010.
