Varma free to go, says Nitish Kumar

Patna, January 23

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday took umbrage at his senior party leader Pavan Varma going public with reservations about the JD(U)’s support to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and tie-up with the BJP for Delhi Assembly elections, and made it clear that the “scholarly” diplomat-turned-politician was “free to go wherever he likes”.

Nitish’s blunt remarks came two days after Varma, a former Rajya Sabha member, sent him a two-page letter on the issue and shared screenshots of the same on his official Twitter handle and Facebook profile despite it containing details of conversations the two had “in private”. Nitish made the comment when mediapersons approached him at the Gandhi Maidan where he had come to attend a function. — PTI