Nitish Kumar (file photo)
Deobaria, Bihar:
Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar today took potshots at Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav saying while he was working hard to enhance the power supply and facilitate education, the opposition leader was trying to take them back to days of 'lantern' (RJD symbol) and 'lathi'.
"From a time when Bihar had as little as 700 MW power supply, to today, the availability of electricity has increased to 2400 MW," Mr Kumar said addressing an election rally in favour of
Vijay Kumar Sahni at Vaishali Lok Sabha seat against Raghubansh Prasad Singh.
The target was to increase power supply to 3000 MW by the end of this year and make it 4000 MW in 2015, he said to highlight the initiative of his government in the power sector.
Mr Kumar also highlighted the construction of more than 14,000 small and big road bridges in the state, cycle yojna to boost education among girls and reservation of 50 per cent to women in panchayat and urban local bodies.
He blamed Lalu Prasad Yadav for "wasting" the opportunity to work for the welfare of the poor and downtrodden.
"RJD ruled Bihar in the name of social justice but what prevented it to work for the welfare of the dalits, extremely backward castes and other downtrodden section?" he posed the
question to the RJD chief.
The environment in Bihar has been transformed from bad to good through great difficulties, he said and appealed to the people not to let it slide back to days of "lantern" and "lathi".
"From a time when Bihar had as little as 700 MW power supply, to today, the availability of electricity has increased to 2400 MW," Mr Kumar said addressing an election rally in favour of
Vijay Kumar Sahni at Vaishali Lok Sabha seat against Raghubansh Prasad Singh.
The target was to increase power supply to 3000 MW by the end of this year and make it 4000 MW in 2015, he said to highlight the initiative of his government in the power sector.
Mr Kumar also highlighted the construction of more than 14,000 small and big road bridges in the state, cycle yojna to boost education among girls and reservation of 50 per cent to women in panchayat and urban local bodies.
He blamed Lalu Prasad Yadav for "wasting" the opportunity to work for the welfare of the poor and downtrodden.
"RJD ruled Bihar in the name of social justice but what prevented it to work for the welfare of the dalits, extremely backward castes and other downtrodden section?" he posed the
question to the RJD chief.
The environment in Bihar has been transformed from bad to good through great difficulties, he said and appealed to the people not to let it slide back to days of "lantern" and "lathi".
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