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Patna/New Delhi:A day after the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced the Bharat Ratna to Jannayak Karpoori Thakur, the three main parties of Bihar were caught in a political war to appropriate the legacy of the two-time chief minister...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was not to be left behind as it held a get-together in front of its state office...
The first shot was fired by JD(U) head and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who took a subtle dig at Lalu Prasad as well as advised the BJP to not take credit of conferring the Bharat Ratna and instead asked the Centre to accept its demand of a nation-wide caste census...
When our government came in 2005, a year after that, from 2007 onwards, every year we kept writing to all the governments asking that Jannayak Karpoori Thakur should be given the Bharat Ratna..
The BJP has been getting the EBC votes, but it would like to take advantage of giving the Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur, he said...
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