Won past 2 polls for my work, will win again: Nitish Kumar

PATNA: JD(U) president and CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said he won the last two assembly elections (2010 & 2015) on the performance of his government and would win again in the coming assembly election.
Addressing party workers through a ‘virtual sammelan’, Nitish coined a formula of ‘90% versus 10%’ to ensure victory in the 2020 assembly polls. He asked them to spend only 10% of their time responding to “misinformation campaign” of the opposition. “The rest 90% of the time should be spent on informing and educating the common people with data and facts about the development works done by his government in the past 15 years,” Nitish said.
On Wednesday, he addressed workers of altogether nine districts in four separate sessions. In the first session, Nitish addressed the workers of Samastipur, while those of Begusarai and Khagaria in the second session. The workers from Bhagalpur and Banka were addressed in the third session and those from Munger, Lakhisarai, Jamui and Sheikhpura districts heard the party chief in the fourth and the last session of the day.
The JD(U) chief said a revised industrial investment promotion policy would be announced in the next three or four days.
“The last industrial investment promotion policy in the state was announced in 2016. Its five-year tenure is due to end in 2021. But the state government can make midterm amendments to make it more attractive for industries,” Bihar Industries Association (BIA) secretary Anil Sinha told TOI on Wednesday. Sinha said the BIA was ready to provide its assistance to the government’s move.
Speaking to party workers, the CM further said his government was working day-and-night to provide employment to returned migrant workers and local people. “Several departments, through their different schemes, are running a campaign for employment generation for the local people and migrant workers,” he said.
“Which work of development did I not do in the past 15 years?” Nitish asked while recounting the infrastructural developments done by his government. “Right from providing electricity connection to each household, spreading the network of roads and bridges in the entire state, providing piped water supply to each house, opening new engineering and medical colleges, to improving the condition of hospitals. What works we did not do?” he added.
Around 5,600 workers participated in each of the four sessions of the virtual workers’ sammelan conducted by JD(U) national general secretary Sanjay Kumar Jha.
“Party’s senior leaders like RCP Singh, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav and building construction minister Ashok Choudhary also addressed the sammelan and spoke on different issues,” Jha told TOI.
Attack on Lalu
Making a veiled attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family, energy minister Bijendra Yadav, while addressing the workers, said, “Nitish Kumar neither paid attention on accumulating properties for himself nor made any attempt to promote his family members or children, whereas a previous CM used to tour different parts of the state to ascertain where from ‘maal’ (money) can come. That previous CM also used to ascertain how land or building can be registered in his family members’ name by distribution of party tickets.”