-Nirala Bidesiya
The Bihar government had prepared a 140-page report detailing its achievements during the first year. It had called a press conference on November 20 to present the report. However, the Kanpur rail accident scuttled this plan.
Meanwhile, the NDA leaders Ram Vilas Paswan, Upendra Kushwaha and Jitan Ram Manjhi came up with a different account of Nitish government's performance with the document titled “Ek saal, bura haal.”
Predictably, the opposition questioned the state government on its apparent failures. It raised issues like deteriorating crime situation, dissolution of the agriculture cabinet formed during the NDA regime and alleged that the government has only rebranded the existing bank schemes as the student credit card system.
The leaders …show more content…
He is busy preparing for an all-party meeting on his pet project of liquor prohibition. The Chief Minister has expressed his intention to implement the ban in a more stringent manner.
The RJD leader and state minister Taj Pratap Yadav feels his government owes no answer to the opposition. “We are not entitled to give answers to the leaders of a party that showed no sensitivity to the victims of the Kanpur rail accident. While our government cancelled all programmes following the accident, the Prime Minister was busy making a political speech in Agra at the same time,” Tej Pratap says.
Senior RJD leader and former minister Jagdanand Singh attempts to answer the opposition but ends up targeting the Chief Minister. According to him, “the state was ruled by touts and agents during the past decade. The governance is back on the track for the last one year.” There is every chance that this statement from a leader of Jagdanand Singh's repute might turn into a political controversy. Although, RJD leaders have not shied from taking pot shots at Nitish Kumar in the recent