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Amid a row over Nitish Kumars remark on population control, JDU ministers defended their party leader..
Ministers belonging to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) on Thursday reached the state legislature armed with copies of NCERT books to defend their leader who is in the eye of a storm over use of crudely graphic language in both Houses...
Singh, who vehemently denies having "hung her head in shame", according to the BJP, upon hearing the CM's words inside the legislative council on Tuesday, told reporters "It is all a diversionary tactics of the opposition party which is rattled by our leader's historic moves like caste survey and a hike in quotas for SCs, STs and the backward classes"...
Ashok Choudhary waved Class 12 text books, in English as well as Hindi, pointing to specific pages which "say the same thing that our leader had spoken of"...
If members of the opposition are so convinced that our leader's speech was scandalous, they being the party in power at the Centre, should get these books changed", said Choudhary...
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