Sushil Modi declines to wear ‘Muslim cap’

Bihar’s former deputy chief minister and BJP leader Sushil Modi on Wednesday declined to wear a Muslim skull cap offered by a member of the party’s ally HAM in the upcoming state polls citing the humid climate. At an election meeting in Tekari Assembly constituency in Gaya, Shakila Bano, a woman leader of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awami Morcha (HAM), offered a skull cap to Modi. “I offered Modi a skull <g data-gr-id="13" style="color: #3b3b3b; font-size: 11px;">cap</g> but he politely refused to wear citing humid climate,” a party worker close to Bano quoted her as saying.  “She was upset after Modi refused to accept her offer in front of the people who had gathered for the election <g data-gr-id="12" style="color: #3b3b3b; font-size: 11px;">rally,”the</g> worker added.  HAM's candidate Anil Kumar is contesting polls from <g data-gr-id="11" style="color: #3b3b3b; font-size: 11px;">Tekari</g>.