‘Who Ought to Say I Love You First?’ Congress’ Salman Khurshid’s Reply to Nitish Kumar on Opposition Unity | Information

Patna: It’s a query of who utters I really like you first, senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid mentioned on Saturday, with regards to his occasion’s intent to forge opposition unity and tackle the BJP juggernaut in Lok Sabha polls subsequent yr. The previous 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 factors, some bluntly and others not directly”, Khurshid mentioned concerning the speech of Kumar, the JD(U) boss, who had exhorted the grand previous occasion to take the lead in forging opposition unity.

“So far as my understanding of my very own occasion goes, I can guarantee you that your sentiments are shared by us. However the scenario is akin to lovers taking their time to determine who ought to say I really like 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 occurs that generally an inexperienced lover is uninhibited sufficient to make the primary transfer”.

Showering encomiums on the Bihar CM and his deputy for giving up their previous political hostility, the previous Union minister mentioned “the Bihar mannequin serves as a viable different to the Gujarat mannequin (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.

“Pink is the color of revolution and like Kabir’s well-known verse I really feel we’ve all been painted in the identical hue”, mentioned Khurshid.