release from Bhagalpur jail on bail

murder of his two brothers

Nitish a CM of circumstance: Shahabuddin

NEW DELHI: Former RJD MP and Siwan strongman Mohammad Shahabuddin has dismissed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and said his loyalties remain strongly with RJD chief Lalu Prasad.Speaking to reporters after his, Shahabuddin tackled questions on his political future. “Our entire state knows, the whole country knows where my loyalties have been, where they are and where they will be. There is no controversy on this,” he said.He also maintained that he had been framed in the much-publicised Rajiv Raushan murder case, and said he wouldn’t need an image makeover. “Why would I try to change my image? People have accepted me the way I am for 26 years,” he said.Shahabuddin dismissed Nitish Kumar as a “chief minister of circumstance”He had been jailed in November 2005 in connection to the murder of Rajiv Ranjan, a prime witness in the- Girish Raj and Satish Raj. The brothers had been murdered in Siwan in August 2004.