Patna: Former Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi sits on protest against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with its cabinet ministers of his erstwhile regime from Monday at Gandhi Maidan for annulling decisions taken by his ministry.
Along with a few rebel Janata Dal (United) MLAs, Manjhi and members of his erstwhile cabinet today sat on the fast under the statue of Mahatma Gandhi here as they protested against the Nitish Kumar government’s scrapping of 34 decisions that were taken by their ministry.
Manjhi while launching a scathing attack at Kumar, told reporters that the decision to scrap cabinet decisions was “najayaz” (illegal).
Manjhi had defended his decisions and said all the decisions taken by his cabinet were “genuine” for welfare of poor.
He trashed argument of shortage of fund to finance these decisions saying “actually Nitish Kumar is using money in ‘pomp and show’ to carve out his name instead of development.”
He had rubbish the projects worth thousands of rupees like international museum, convention centre, new building for Legislative Assembly, new residences for legislators were not necessary at all as we are fighting against poverty in the state. HE said that there was no need for these buildings.
Narendra Singh, Brishen Patel, Nitish Mishra, Mahachandra Prasad Singh and other ministers of the Manjhi cabinet, along with some dissident JD-U MLAs like Gyanendra Singh Gyanoo, Poonam Devi, senior leader Shivanand Tiwari and Shakuni Chaudhary sat on the protest fast with Manjhi.
The fast has been organized under the banner of newly floated organisation “HAM” (Hindustan Awami Morcha) by Manjhi and his supporters. The protestors wore Gandhi cap with “HAM” written on it to draw resemblance with Aam Admi Party (AAP) of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Notify that Kumar had annulled 34 decisions taken by the former Manjhi ministry during their last three meetings on February 10, 18 and 19 in the cabinet meeting on March 4.
The items annulled included increasing fund for legislators from Rs 2 crore to Rs 3 crore annually under CM Development schemes from next fiscal, setting up of a committee to study reservation for poor among forward castes, providing salary of 13 months to policemen instead of 12 months and giving reservation to backward, most backward and women applicants in contract of road construction department.
Bureau Report
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