Patna: Parliamentary affairs minister and senior JDU leader Shravan Kumar on Wednesday asked leaders of alliance partner BJP not to deliver provocative speeches that could create social strife.

Shravan's appeal came a day after another senior JDU leader, K.C. Tyagi, asked the BJP to ensure that their absconding leader Arjit Shashwat - the son of Union minister Ashwini Choubey - respects the law and surrenders before the court.

"There should not be any statement from the leaders and they should avoid issuing provocative speeches," Shravan said on Wednesday on the Assembly premises. "In society, different kind of people live and this country does not belong to one person; rather, it belongs to everyone. They have the right to survive and the right to work."

He was reacting to the statement of BJP leaders over Arjit. Arjit's minister-father has called the FIR against Arjit as "a piece of garbage" filed by "corrupt officers".

Choubey claimed his son, accused of fomenting communal strife in Bhagalpur on march 17, had done no wrong.

Without naming Union ministers Giriraj Singh or Ashwini Choubey, Shravan Kumar said: "I will ask my alliance partner leaders not to give any provocative speech which could lead to disturbance in the society. The alliance partner should not issue any statement which could send a wrong message in society."

Arjit has been evading arrest and has openly dared the Nitish Kumar government to nab him.

Attacking the Nitish Kumar government of which his party is a part of, Choubey had gone on to say " Andher nagri, chaupat raja (Dark is the nation and thoroughly useless is the king)."

However, later he changed his statement saying that he was referring to the Bhagalpur administration and not the chief minister.

Another JDU leader and former minister Shyam Rajak called Arjit a criminal, and claimed that the police will treat him the way they deal with other criminals.

"Over here there is no issue of father and son. A criminal is always a criminal in the eyes of law and action would be taken as per its due course. Nitish ji does not protect anyone nor does he frame anyone," Rajak said.

BJP minister Vijay Kumar Sinha on the other hand said that Nitish is the top leader of the NDA in Bihar and will ensure that an innocent person (read Arjit) is not framed.