Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday targeted the Congress for betraying the state on its demand
for special category status. The committee identified Bihar as one of the least developed. The state is
set to receive more funds for development, even if not special category status, under new criteria to
measure backwardness.
Nitish Kumar said to Reporter, The Congress is delaying decision on the Raghuram Rajan Committee
report to keep its ally happy in Bihar as part of politics ahead of the next general elections (in 2014. By
hitting against the Congress, Nitish Kumar made it clear his party, Janata Dal-United (JD-U), has no hope
of alliance with the former as it was widely speculated for months after he dumped the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP).
Nitish Kumar has repeatedly declared he would support a party that would grant special category
status to Bihar and he was in favour of an alliance with the Congress to counter BJP’s prime ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi till early this month.
“Politics is a game of possibility, there is open mind to join hands with any party,”He said in reply to
possibility of JD-U’s likely alliance with LJP. Last week, he said the JD-U is not worried about any likely
tie-up of the Congress, the Rashtriya Janta Dal and the LJP for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Bureau Report
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