Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has attacked the Central government, saying the state is yet to receive money for rehabilitation of last year's Kosi flood victims.
Nitish also said he again wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a week ago making seven demands, including special rehabilitation package for Kosi victims and special status for Bihar.
He dismissed statements that he has not sent any proposal to the Centre for rehabilitation saying, "A detailed proposal was sent in October last year".
Nitish also flayed the Centre for twisting facts to deny money for relief and rehabilitation of the flood victims.
"In April this year, we got a letter from the Centre, which said that it found that we already had surplus money in our calamity relief account and hence we owed only Rs 500 crore to the Centre. So rest of the over Rs 1000 crore given to us for relief work should be returned," Nitish said.
The Centre had given a fund of over Rs 1000 crore to the state government for relief work. Later, the state government had also demanded a separate package of Rs 14, 800 crore for rehabilitation of the flood victims.
The Bihar Chief Minister added that the Prime Minister later called him up when he raised objections to the letter and assured him to get the issue re-examined.
"We are still waiting for the results. We are ready to give answer to their every query. Officers of the Bihar government had in fact visited the national capital a number of times in this regard," he added.
He, however, parried a question on whether this was happening because he heads a government of the opposition alliance in the state.
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