Won’t Contest Bihar Elections: CM Nitish Kumar

They said this will become a hot topic in the run up to the elections, scheduled for later this year and will be used as an effective means to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA in the state.

Asserting that youths were the harbinger of change in the society, the BJP today sought their support in its quest to claim power in the forthcoming assembly elections in Bihar. “What happened to it?” senior Bihar ministers Vijay Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav told reporters.

“It recorded high growth rate and witnessed the development of basic infrastructure to human development in the last one decade, which was lauded and studied by foreign universities”, Nitish Kumar said while releasing a final report card on his government’s performance ahead of the coming Bihar assembly polls in October-November.

Kumar was reacting to Union Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh’s statement in Lok Sabha on July 31 that “There is no proposal as of now to grant special status to any state“.

“The BJP was the part of the resolution that both Houses of the state Legislature unanimously adopted for securing special category status to the state”.

“Nitish Kumar is on the verge of giving directions to help victims whose property were grabbed by the rioters in the year 1989 or even post riot”, a source said.

“Modi has made a promise only to give special package of more than Rs.50,000 crore to Bihar”.

Kumar said from what he has been hearing and reading in newspapers, it seems there would be no new projects in the much hyped special package PM would unveil for Bihar.

A special category status will render the backward state a host of financial incentives which, Kumar has argued, was necessary to turn around Bihar economically.

The JD(U) today attacked the BJP as its government at the Centre has ruled out granting special category status to Bihar and provided only a special package instead.

The JD-U has held several rallies in Patna and New Delhi on the issue.