India, Sept. 25 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said the BJP has "mentally retired" Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and considers him to be a "liability". In his opening remarks at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting here, Kharge launched a frontal attack on the BJP over a host of issues such as alleged "vote chori, economic slowdown, unemployment, social polarisation and targeting and weakening of autonomous constitutional institutions". Kharge claimed that the upcoming assembly elections will mark the beginning of the end of the Modi Government's "corrupt rule" at the Centre.

Setting the tone for the Bihar poll campaign, Kharge criticised PM Modi's diplomatic failures with US and other countries saying, "Our ...