PM Modi announces Rs 1.65 lakh crore Special Package for Bihar

Promising that the state will touch new heights of development if the BJP is voted to power, Modi hit out at chief minister Nitish Kumar for pleading with the previous UPA government for bigger packages and getting only Rs12,000 crore.

This was Modi’s third rally in Bihar and first in the Mithila region, which the NDA had swept in the Lok Sabha polls. This is good news for Bihar, whoever wins the state elections -presumably, the package will not evaporate even if the Nitish Kumar-led alliance wins.

“Both incidents are before you”.

“When I said Bihar is a BIMARU state, your CM became very angry”. He says the DNA is wrong.

He added that people would also question him on the rise in crime in the state. “It is the pubic to decide if they need anything or they have everything”, said the PM continuing his tirade against Nitish.

Kejriwal’s Delhi government too shares an uneasy relationship with the Centre and is at odds with the Modi dispensation amid its continuous turf wars. JD (U) president Sharad Yadav said that Bihar government had asked for a special status, not “largesse from someone”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a whopping Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package for Bihar. Mr Kejriwal went on to predict that “Delhi will be repeated in Bihar”. “If somebody is sick, what else do we say?”

“I feel good that Kejriwal ji will go to Bihar. He runs away to Delhi rather than visiting Bihar”. “As I depart he will invite the media and claim that whatever I announced today were all old things”, the PM said. Will he give the money if the BJP loses the election?

Rs 1.25 lakh crore is 1% of India’s GDP in 2014-15.

Thousands of people chanted Modi-Modi as he made the announcement.

For Mr Kumar, the coming Bihar elections will be his toughest-ever electoral battle. “Hold on to Kejriwal”, Nitish said at Bihar Samman Sammelan (Convention on Bihar Pride), organised by the Aam Aadmi Party government in the national capital on Wednesday. There is a significant population of migrants still enrolled as voters in Bihar. “People from Bihar strongly backed AAP”.

The MLAs who joined the saffron party include Gyanendra Singh Gyanu (Barh), Rajeshwar Raj (Karakat), Suresh Chanchal (Sakra) and Dinesh Kushwaha (Minapur), who is also a former state minister. People of the country have rejected the politics of innuendo. He said with authority that Bihar is no longer a BIMARU State.

“During Delhi polls, they had said that the gotra of Kejriwal is problematic”. “How many times will you slaughter a chicken”.