Congress may use Gujarat riot victims photograph against Nitish Kumar

The Congress may use a riot victim Quttubuddin Ansari's photograph in which he was shown to be begging with the rioters to spare his life during 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat "in order to expose" chief minister Nitish Kumar's secular image during the assembly polls in Bihar.

The state unit party leadership has hit upon the idea to use the Gujarat riots victim's photograph an a poll material to "tear apart Kumar's secular credentials" vis-a-vis his association with the BJP of which Modi has a mascot, the Congress chief spokesperson Prem Chandra Mishra told PTI here.
  
"We have written to the Congress high command explaining justification of use of Ansari's photograph as a poll material in Bihar," he said.

The high command's decision in this regard was awaited, Mishra said, adding that the said photograph will prove to be an useful poll material, particularly among the minority community, to expose the senior JD(U) leader's secular credentials, the Congress leader said.

The Congress will also tell the electorate that Kumar, who was then an Union Minister in the NDA government at the Centre, had not uttered a single word on the Gujarat riots, he said.