Observing that the special status will not be a panacea of all ills gripping Bihar, the BJP today slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for begging to the UPA government to grant special status for mutual political benefits in the next general elections.        

"The Chief Minister is compromising pride of Bihar and its people by begging to the Centre to grant special status to Bihar so that the measure could benefit mutually the JD(U) and the Congress in the next general elections," the senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters.        

Stating that the special status was legitimate right, he said that the people would rather like to slug it out to compel the Centre to concede special status to Bihar rather than to beg for it as their chief minister has been doing.        

Stating that the BJP was anguished with the manner in which Kumar has been begging to the Centre to grant special status to Bihar, the former deputy chief minister said that his party will showcase the special status demand as a theme during its 'Hunkar Rally' to be held at Patna on October 27 which will be addressed among others by the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.