Nitish Kumar Touches PM’s Feet After Gaffe: Tejashwi Yadav Calls It ‘Absolutely Shameful’

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was criticised on social media for asserting that the NDA would win "more than 4,000 seats" in the Lok Sabha elections.

Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after he was seen taking blessings from Prime Minister Narendra Modi by touching his feet when the duo shared a stage at Nawada. Tejashwi called it shameful and said he was ashamed when he saw the picture.

“Today I saw a picture of Nitish Kumar where he touched the feet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi… We felt ashamed… What has happened? Nitish Kumar is our guardian… There is no other Chief Minister as experienced as Nitish Kumar and he is touching the feet of Prime Minister Modi,” the RJD leader was quoted as saying by India Today.

The development comes after a video from the election rally, which is being widely shared, showed the Bihar Chief Minister touching the feet of PM Modi feet after he concluded his speech.

In the meantime, the Bihar Chief Minister was criticised on social media for asserting that the NDA would win “more than 4,000 seats” in the Lok Sabha elections.

The viral video from the election campaign shows Nitish Kumar saying “char lakh (four lakh)” before correcting himself and saying “char hazaar se bhi zyada (more than 4,000)”, while turning towards the PM, who has been aiming for “400 plus tally” in the elections.

“The chief minister seemed to initially wish for more than four lakh MPs to the PM. Then he probably thought it would be too much and 4,000 would be sufficient,” RJD spokesperson Sarika Paswan wrote on X.