RSS ranks Bihar ahead of Gujarat in development

New Delhi: RSS has added grist to the mill to the Nitish Kumar versus Narendra Modi debate when its chief Mohan Bhagwat reportedly rated Bihar's performance ahead of Gujarat.

At an interaction with foreign correspondents on Thursday, Bhagwat was asked which state governments are role models of good goverance.

"Bihar, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh to some extent, MP to some extent, some parts of Maharashtra," he responded, according to one of those present at the interaction.

Asked "Bihar first", he said, "aisa log kahte hain (this is what people say)." When asked to comment on this, RSS spokesman Manmohan Vaidya merely said, "the story about Shri Mohanji Bhagwat doing rounds in media today is totally false."