A disagreement between the ruling alliance and the BJP-led Opposition in Bihar over the demand for particular standing for the state intensified on Thursday, with high leaders focusing on one another.
A day after the Bihar Cupboard handed a decision searching for the grant of particular class standing to the state, Deputy Chief Minister Tejasvi Yadav stated on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should ship on the promise of particular standing for Bihar that he made earlier.
Talking to reporters, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief additionally listed numerous growth initiatives undertaken by the state authorities previously years and stated, “Bihar has played a role as a pathfinder since time immemorial. The caste-based survey was one such ambitious endeavour and our government aspires for economic freedom coupled with social justice”.
Former Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi took a dig on the RJD chief, saying, “Tejashwi doesn’t even have his ABCD right”.
Whereas describing the demand for particular standing for Bihar as “nothing but a political stunt”, Sushil Modi questioned why former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh didn’t heed to this demand at the same time as Lalu Yadav performed a vital position within the authorities again then.
Sushil Modi blamed the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities for promulgating provisions that technically don’t permit the inclusion of every other state within the listing of these accorded particular standing.
“Seven-five years Congress, RJD, JDU were ruling separately and now together. Despite this, Bihar is the most backward in every parameter, so these people are responsible for this. Nitish and Lalu were powerful ministers at the Centre. Why did these people not get special status for Bihar then?” Sushil Modi requested.
He claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had earlier alleged that Lalu Prasad Yadav had stopped the particular standing of Bihar. “Tejashwi Yadav shall ask his father why he [Lalu] stopped him [Nitish]? Why was it not allowed to happen?” he wrote on X.
Sushil Modi additionally stated that the 14th and fifteenth Finance Commissions abolished the idea of particular standing.
Reiterating its long-standing demand, the Nitish-led Mahagathbandhan authorities, comprising Janata Dal (United), RJD, Congress, and others, handed a decision on Wednesday, searching for particular standing for Bihar.
Nitish Kumar, who introduced that the Cupboard has handed a decision requesting the Centre to grant particular class standing to Bihar, stated the recent demand was necessitated by findings of the caste survey his authorities carried out within the state.
Mentioning a number of welfare initiatives within the state, he stated, “the implementation of all such measures will cost Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Because of the huge sum involved, we have set a deadline of five years from now for the completion of the schemes. But if we get special category status, we will be able to accomplish the task in a much shorter time”.
Instantly after the announcement, Sushil Modi, stated, “The Bihar government is flogging a dead horse with this political stunt.”