Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday slammed MNS leader Raj Thackeray over his anti-Bihari statement and said that the MNS leader is making statements to gain publicity. Nitish Kumar said that Thackeray has no right to challenge Bihari pride. He also said no one is above the Constitution.

Thackeray had threatened to brand Biharis as "infiltrators" on Friday and force them out of Maharashtra if authorities in Bihar take legal action against Mumbai policemen who picked up a teenager from there without informing their counterparts in that state.
 

Thackeray, whose party has often launched violent campaigns against Hindi-speaking people in Maharashtra, was reacting to a media report that Bihar chief secretary Navin Kumar has written to Mumbai police commissioner voicing displeasure over the arrest of the youth for vandalising the martyr's memorial during Azad Maidan protest on August 11.