Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday hit out at his detractors in signature style - without naming anyone or putting his attacks in context and leaving the interpretation up to the audience.

Speaking at the Yuva Sankalp Sammelan organized by his Janata Dal United, he touched on social bitterness and tension, vowed to never compromise with corruption, crime and communalism, and lamented how young leaders were now coming into politics via family - nudge nudge, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav - and not convictions.

Nitish has been harping about his "unaltered stand on communalism" ever since the flare-ups in Bihar during and after Ram Navami in which sword-yielding youth were a common sight at processions. Sources close to Nitish insist that he believes that those flare-ups were engineered by the BJP, and blames them for the minorities becoming hostile towards him.

On Tuesday, he even asked the minorities to name any compromise he had made (after he joined hands with BJP). "People ask me why I am silent. Is it my job to react to baseless statements? Many people have no work except making statements. They tweet four to six statements every day," he said.

He did break his silence on his party's recent Assembly bypoll defeat.

"I had not gone to seek votes in Jokihat. I had spoken about the work I had done for the minorities and asked them to vote if they found my work worthwhile," he said, stressing that "others" only speak about the minorities but do nothing for them.

He reminded the audience than when he took over, the total budget of the minority welfare department was Rs 3 crore. "Today it has become Rs 800 crore," he remarked pointing out the welfare measures his government had taken for the minorities.

"I do not look out for votes. I commit myself for development for all. I spoke about zero tolerance against corruption. When I started asking questions all sorts of words were used against me," he said at what was possibly a look back at the breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

Nitish expressed happiness that members of the youth wing of JDU had taken a pledge to protect the environment and social reforms.

"We have come to politics through the students' agitation launched by JP. This is our background. Today very few youths come to politics on their own strength. They come on the basis on their family background. This is a disturbing trend. The atmosphere of politics will become choked," he remarked. "Whatever I am today is because of the experience and beliefs I had gained in the youth agitation."

The chief minister also spoke about the Bihar Right to Service Act and Bihar Public Grievance Redressal Act, and on his government's welfare measures for the Dalits, stressing that others only spoke while he does.

"There still are people who do not go for caste and creed. They vote for work," he told the youths remarking that the younger generation should not join JDU if they think politics is a means to get money. "Development for all and social reforms are our core issues," he added.

Right after Nitish's speech, Tejashwi re-tweeted a news item headlined on the chief minister's barbs on dynasty politics, and posted in Hindi: "Nitish chacha should sign an affidavit that his son will never join politics."