PATNA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mounted a sharp attack on the stateтАЩs ruling coalition led by chief minister Nitish Kumar at its two-day executive committee meeting, describing тАЬpolitical instability, unprincipled alliance and fear of jungle rajтАЭ as a big impediment to the stateтАЩs progress.
In the political resolution passed at the meeting in Darbhanga, the BJP blamed the Grand Alliance governmentтАЩs тАЬirresponsible approachтАЭ for the worsening condition of the labour force and small and marginal farmers.
тАЬThe farmers must get the right price for their produce. While fixing the minimum support price, it must be kept in mind that the farmers get some profit over the input cost. But the farmers in Bihar have been left to fend for themselves. They are not even getting the right compensation for their landтАж This is unfortunate given how Prime Minister Narendra Modi is constantly striving to double the farmersтАЩ income through a slew of initiatives,тАЭ the resolution said.
The resolution underlined that the irrigation department, which has remained with Nitish KumarтАЩs Janata Dal (United) [JD-U] or the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) during the last three decades, hadnтАЩt come up with a new canal project in all these years due to their myopic vision, and credited the Centre for the Asian Development BankтАЩs approval for the тВ╣3,272 crore Sone canal concretisation project in the Shahabad region.
тАЬThe Bihar government has not even completed the KYC of 26 lakh farmers, who may be deprived of the Kisan Samman Nidhi and there are serious irregularities coming to light even in the central and state schemes for the benefit of farmers,тАЭ the resolution said.
The BJP resolution also cited education as another area which was controlled by the JD-U and RJD for decades and had suffered. тАЬThe indifference towards education can be gauged by the fact that the state has not even published any books in the last two decades,тАЭ the resolution said.
The BJP also underlined that the proposed AIIMS at Darbhanga was yet to become a reality. тАЬIn 2018, the NDA government in Bihar sent a proposal for setting up AIIMS on the land of the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and the Union cabinet approved тВ╣1264 crore for the same in 2020, but the work still could not take off. Nitish Kumar should rise above politics and speed up AIIMS construction for the benefit of the masses, who are compelled to go to other states for treatment,тАЭ it said.
The resolution also blamed the GA government for divisive politics by issuing controversial statements on HinduтАЩs sacred scriptures or attacking Indian culture as part of what the BJP called, was тАЬits appeasement politicsтАЭ.
тАЬAfter Nitish Kumar became CM of the NDA government in 2005, he was known for good governance as people got a respite from the jungle raj of the RJD regime. Now, as he has once again switched sides, governance has become directionless and the same Nitish Kumar is being cursed. Indian MujahideenтАЩs terror modules are active in Mithilanchal and Seemanchal, as the GA government is not ready to take decisive steps,тАЭ the BJP said.
In his rebuttal to its former ally, chief minister Nitish Kumar said the Bihar government, right since 2005, has worked for all sections and it was due to the JD-U that even minorities voted for the BJP in the past. тАЭWe had allied with the BJP of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was so different. Now we are out and happy,тАЭ he added.
Rajiv Ranjan, who left the BJP earlier this month and joined the JD-U, said the people wonтАЩt fall for the BJPтАЩs rhetoric because they had seen the fruits of development. тАЬA party that cannot even project a leader in the state cannot promise anything,тАЭ he said.
