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Lalu to march to Bihar's villages 'to
expose' Nitish
Monday May 14, 2012 02:15:23 PM,
Imran Khan,
IANS
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Patna: Having stayed
away from the rough and tumble of Bihar politics for more than
one-and-a-half years, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad
says he will focus on the state to expose the reality behind Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar's so-called good governance.
"Now I will stay in Bihar and march to villages across the state
to expose the real face of Nitish Kumar. I am here to stay," Lalu
Prasad, who has been based in New Delhi for a while, told IANS at
his residence here.
"I have chalked out a strategy to launch an agitation against the
failures of Nitish Kumar's government by visiting villages along
with RJD workers. I will now be in direct touch with common
people," he said.
Lalu Prasad said he would undertake a march from Motihari district
to Gaya, about 200 km away, to reach out to the 'aam admi' and
gauge the people's mood. "I will not sit silent," said the former
chief minister.
"Anger against Nitish's so-called good governance and development
is increasing in Bihar. It was visible with the protests against
the chief minister when he visited some districts during his sewa
yatra last month and this month," claimed Lalu Prasad.
Lalu Prasad also said Nitish Kumar will no longer miss his absence
in Bihar. It was a reference to Nitish Kumar's repeated statement
that Lalu Prasad had become a non- resident Bihari as he mostly
stayed in Delhi after his RJD's debacle in the last assembly polls
in 2010.
Lalu Prasad said the rule of his RJD was termed as jungle raj due
to crimes, but wondered about the spiralling crime graph in Bihar
under Nitish Kumar's rule.
"There is hardly a day that passes without murder, kidnapping,
loot, rape and attack on the poorest people by a powerful section
in the state. The law and order machinery has completely collapsed
in the state," Lalu Prasad said.
He said RJD leaders and workers had been asked to raise public
issues and consistently work at the grassroots.
He said people were fed up with the functioning of the government
due to an arrogant bureaucracy, unprecedented rise in corruption
and misutilisation of funds earmarked for MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) and other welfare
schemes.
"The state government is hell bent on suppressing big financial
irregularities worth thousands of crores of rupees related to non
submission of bills. This is a government of scams and financial
bungling. The RJD will expose it," he said.
(Imran Khan can be contacted at imran.k@ians.in)
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