<p>In the communally sensitive Bhagalpur, a clash broke out after JD-U activists objected to BJP activists carrying Modi's posters, police said. The JD-U workers tried to tear the posters that led to the clash.<br /><br />The BJP workers shouted slogans against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, calling him 'Maulana Nitish' and accused him of taking on Modi in a bid to woo Muslim votes.<br />At Patna's busy Dak Bungalow Square, JD-U and BJP workers clashed over Modi posters prompting JD-U MP Monazir Hasan to demand that Nitish Kumar should sever ties with the BJP.<br /><br />Hasan, an MP from Begusarai, said the JD-U should go it alone in the next assembly polls.<br />Dozens of BJP workers, in the presence of party legislator Arun Kumar, burnt Hasan's effigy.<br />Last month, Nitish Kumar voiced displeasure over newspaper advertisements showing him in the company of Narendra Modi. <br /><br />An upset Nitish Kumar cancelled a dinner he was to host for BJP leaders June 12 and returned Rs.5 crore to the Gujarat government given for Kosi flood relief work in 2008.<br /></p>
<p>In the communally sensitive Bhagalpur, a clash broke out after JD-U activists objected to BJP activists carrying Modi's posters, police said. The JD-U workers tried to tear the posters that led to the clash.<br /><br />The BJP workers shouted slogans against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, calling him 'Maulana Nitish' and accused him of taking on Modi in a bid to woo Muslim votes.<br />At Patna's busy Dak Bungalow Square, JD-U and BJP workers clashed over Modi posters prompting JD-U MP Monazir Hasan to demand that Nitish Kumar should sever ties with the BJP.<br /><br />Hasan, an MP from Begusarai, said the JD-U should go it alone in the next assembly polls.<br />Dozens of BJP workers, in the presence of party legislator Arun Kumar, burnt Hasan's effigy.<br />Last month, Nitish Kumar voiced displeasure over newspaper advertisements showing him in the company of Narendra Modi. <br /><br />An upset Nitish Kumar cancelled a dinner he was to host for BJP leaders June 12 and returned Rs.5 crore to the Gujarat government given for Kosi flood relief work in 2008.<br /></p>