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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Bihar to kick-start his party’s poll campaign, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today launched an attack on him, posing seven questions to him on retrieval of blackmoney, farmers’ issues and the promises he had made to the state during the Lok Sabha polls.
“I am raising seven critical issues — two specific to Bihar and five that in my view people across India want to hear from the Prime Minister,” Kumar said in a tweet.
Taking a dig at the Prime Minister, he said, “We’re grateful after 14 months Modiji finds time to visit Bihar as we get ready to hear more promises what about the old ones?”
“You promised special status for Bihar. 14 months and people are still waiting,” the chief minister said in his posers to the PM.
“With the 14th Finance Commission report and withdrawal of BRGF (Backward Regional Grant Fund), Bihar to lose Rs 50,000 crore in five years. Is this your cooperative federalism?” he asked.
“People are waiting to get their Rs 15-20 lakh from the blackmoney you promised to bring back from abroad. Could we hear something on this?” he asked.
“First U-turn on MSP, then your apathy towards farmers’s distress, and finally your new land bill. Is this what you promised to farmers?” he asked.
“By 2022 you have promised a house for everybody with facility of electricity and water. How would that be fulfilled without allocation of funds or any plan so far?” he asked.
“You started the Jan Dhan scheme to make people believe that it’s not only a bank account, but it’s opening people's fortune. Today, more than 70 per cent accounts are ineffective. Nobody knows how poor would be benefited from such bank accounts?” he asked.
Kumar also alleged that a few capitalists had benefited from the Centre and asked when ‘achche din’ would come for the common man.
With the PM’s visit to Bihar coming ahead of the crucial Assembly elections, Kumar, whose hostility towards him is well known, has set the stage for political fireworks by posing the questions.
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