Nitish will be wiped out in 2014: Rajnath

"Nitishji, you will be wiped out in the 2014 Lok Sabha election since you have touched the Congress," BJP president Rajnath Singh told an impressive gathering of party workers at the Sanjay Gandhi stadium at Gardanibagh on Sunday. "What was the crime committed by [Gujarat chief minister] Narendra Modi which upset you? He set a new model of development that has been appreciated globally. You felt jealous of his popularity. I made him chairman of the campaign committee of the BJP because I thought he was the right choice to lead the party towards victory in 2014 LS election. You did not raise the Modi issue till 2013."         Exhorting BJP workers, he said: "Let the JD(U) go to the Congress. Work hard and ensure that all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar are bagged by the BJP in the 2014 election." He regretted that Nitish did not maintain the minimum decency expected of a friend of 17 years. "He did not ask his colleagues to resign but unceremoniously dismissed them," Rajnath said. "The people of Bihar will never forget it, Nitishji.    Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi called Nitish insensitive and said he dismissed health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey while the latter was struggling for life at Kedarnath in the Uttarakhand hills. "You have overestimated yourself," Sushil Kumar Modi said of Nitish. The deputy CM alleged that Nitish opposed the Gujarat CM and joined hands with the Congress because he wanted to become prime minister himself.