The ruling Nitish Kumar government in Bihar was caught unawares on Wednesday when the main Opposition, the RJD, led by incarcerated chief Lalu Prasad, issued a ‘charge-sheet’ against the government even as the latter had no time to release its “Report card”.
The ruling regime has been releasing the “Report card”, detailing its achievements every year since it came to power in November 2005, but this time the government failed to release it for the reason best known to it.
Releasing the charge-sheet titled “Kuris Ke Pyare- Bihar Ke Hatyare”, former deputy chief minister and leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, launched massive attacks on Kumar-led NDA government which he said is “a complete flop”.
The cartoon on the charge-sheet shows Kumar in a helpless state after being tied to a chair by the long roots of Lotus, the poll symbol of BJP, and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi snatching his “arrow”, the election symbol of JD-U which Kumar heads.
“The present government is a complete flop on all fronts. We hoped that the ruling NDA government which came to power through the back door would put Bihar on the path to progress since it had ‘double-engines’ (the same government in the state and at the Centre) but it instead pushed the state on the path to disaster,” alleged Tejashwi, while addressing a Press conference here.
He said the NDA government failed to release its “Report card” since it had nothing to show this time. He regretted the way Bihar failed to get the special category status despite the same government in Bihar and at the Centre.
“The demand was, however, first put forward by former chief minister Rabri Devi when AB Vajpayee was the Prime Minister. Sadly, it was opposed by none other than Nitish Kumar,” he alleged, adding that the Narendra Modi government even failed to keep its word of granting a special package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore to the state.
According to him, corruption became the most flourishing business in Bihar after the NDA came to power in July last year.
“While no industry came here, the state reported as many as 36 scams during just eight-month-old tenure of the NDA government,” he alleged. Tejashwi also described total prohibition a “total flop” in the state alleging that liquor is easily available in the state and interestingly, ruling party leaders are involved in its “home delivery”.
He further voiced concern over the way Dalit class people were being victimised in the name of liquor ban. “Of the total 1.30 lakh people arrested under new excise law, most of them are Dalits,” he alleged.