Darbhanga, Oct. 25 -- Union Minister and BJP's Bihar election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur remains the only true Jananayak of Bihar, emphasising that any attempt to imitate the revered socialist leader would fail to gain public acceptance.

"There is only one Jananayak in Bihar, and that is Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur Ji. If anyone makes a failed attempt to copy him, the people will not accept that," Pradhan said.

Earlier, Bihar BJP President Dilip Jaiswal slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, whom he believed was attempting to "snatch" the title "Jan Nayak" from Bihar's former CM Karpoori Thakur.

Jaiswal called this an "insult to Bihar and backward community."

"On the one hand, Rahul Gan...