New Delhi, Jan. 17 -- The Leader of Opposition in Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, on Friday, hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on National Population Register (NPR) notification and asked him to scrap it.

In a tweet in Hindi, Tejashwi Yadav said that Nitish Kumar's assurance for not applying National Register for Citizens (NRC) in Bihar was false.

Taking a jibe on Kumar he said: "Nitish ji's false assurance of not applying NRC is the same as the surgeon assuring the patient of no pain by giving anesthesia before performing surgery."

Yadav questioned the intention of the chief minister behind issuing NPR notification and tweeted: "Nitish ji, if your intention is right then why did you issue the notificatio...