Nitish must say ‘thank you’ for Modi’s ‘historic inititive’ said Ravi Shankar

As it is, the alliance suffered a minor blow when the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) walked out of it in protest against the allocation of three seats against its demand for 12.

Nitish also took strong exception to Prime Minister Modi for alleging that the Bihar chief minister was time and again knocking the door of the Centre for special assistance.

Many of these schemes are sponsored by the centre with the state sharing the price of its implementation, Cabinet Coordination Department Principal Secretary Shishir Kumar Sinha advised reporters.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said “Big Ticket Investment” (BTI) will come to Bihar only after the state gets the special status. Later, the JD-U became an ally of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and shared power in the A.B. Vajpayee government at the Centre.

“The BJP has been trying to malign the Nitish government ever since their alliance broke up”.

“All non-electrified diara villages from Buxar to Bhagalpur and also of Gandak and other river basins would be electrified later”, Rudy said.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a six-lane bridge between Deedarganj in Patna and Bidupur in Vaishali on Sunday. “Often, when we capture a criminal, a political leader or his musclemen arrive at our police station within hours and we are told that the leader will “manage” the case”, a police official posted in Darbhanga said on condition of anonymity because he feared persecution for speaking to the media. “With Lalu being in alliance with the ruling party, criminals have been emboldened”. The crowd in his programmes is an indication that Muslims have got disenchanted with Lalu and Nitish.

Kumar, however, refused to comment on whether Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad, with whom he has tied up in this election, was “an asset or liability”. “But Nitish resurrected it. After 10 years of his reign, it will be hard to revert to the lawless state of affairs”, said Gupta, head of the NGO, Asian Development Research Institute in Patna.