Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar can either laugh at this or get scared—his old rival, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, says he has unleashed a ghost which will pull down the state government.
The ghost story begins at I Anne Marg, the official residence of Bihar’s Chief Minister. Yadav’s wife, Rabri Devi, had to vacate the bungalow after losing the assembly elections in 2005.
Yadav told reporters then that he had tied a ghost to his favourite mango tree in the bungalow to trouble the new resident. The Railway Minister recalled the anecdote again on Tuesday after hearing that the mango tree has been pruned.
"Now that they have cut the branches of the tree, the ghost will cut short Nitish Kumar's rule," Prasad told reporters in an informal chat at 10 Circular Road, the new residence of Rabri Devi.
But Kumar doesn’t believe in superstition, reporters told Yadav. “Sab bekaar baat hai (it is all nonsense) . Why else has the state Religious Trust Board’s administrator, who is Nitish’s man, organised so many Hanuman Chalisa recitals?" he said.
Asked to comment on Yadav’s ‘ghost’, Kumar said the tree had been pruned at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research suggestion so that it could graft a new variety of mango.
"Woh ab khud bhootpoorva ho gaye hain is liye bhoot ki baat karte hain (Prasad is a thing of the past and so he loves talking about ghosts)," Kumar said.
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