Shivanand slams Nitish for 'arrogance'

But still the party went ahead with its decision to field Singh and him for the general election, Tiwari said and claimed that Sabir Ali was brought from LJP on the promise of giving him a second term in Rajya Sabha - a promise on which Kumar had reneged upon. “It speaks volumes about his arrogance.”

Kumar, he said, had shown his trademark dictatorial ways earlier too when he denied ticket to Digvijay Singh from Banka in the 2009 general elections.

“Will you explain why Digvijay Singh was denied the ticket despite being a tall leader in JD(U)?” Tiwari asked the state  party chief.

Singh had contested as an independent candidate and won. After his untimely death his wife Putul Singh contested and retained the seat.

Earlier, Tiwari had dashed off a terse letter to Singh in which he lashed out at Kumar for denying second term to him and the other two MPs and replacing them with three new faces Ramanath Thakur, son of the former chief minister Karpoori Thakur; Kahkashan Parveen and Haribansh, a senior journalist.

Kumar has refused to react to Tiwari's diatribes so far.