Irrigation water for all farms if voted back to power: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

PATNA: Announcing his main poll plank, JD(U) president and chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said he would provide water to irrigate each farmland across the state, if voted back to power.
Addressing the JD(U) workers of Magadh division at virtual sammelan, Nitish also said the other big works he intends to do in the next term would be announced before the beginning of the forthcoming assembly polls.
He asked the party workers to interact with common people and seek their suggestion on what more the JD(U) should do if voted to power again. “Seek opinion of common people on this matter and pass it on to the senior party leaders,” he said.
Rejecting his critics’ argument that more development works took place during the NDA government’s first term (2005-2010), Nitish said, “In each term, we did more development works compared to our previous term. We executed more works in the second term (2010-15) compared to the first and, similarly, even more in the third term (2015-20).” He also said some people have launched a misinformation campaign that more development works were executed in the NDA government’s first term in state. “It is wrong,” the CM said.
Referring to the days of extremism, Nitish said, “During the ‘pati-patni’ (Lalu-Rabri Devi) rule in state, the villages in Magadh division used to remain in limelight mainly because of Naxalism and massacres. When I came to power in 2005, I started working for the development of the region and ensured the progress of poor and downtrodden families. Resultantly, Naxalism slowly died down.”
Nitish said it was also the result of our commitment to “development with justice”. He asked the party workers to tell people 90% about the development works done by the NDA government in state and 10% about the situation before 2005.
JD(U) national general secretary and WRD minister Sanjay Kumar Jha, who conducted the virtual workers’ meeting, said over 15 years back, districts like Jehanabad and Aurangabad were notorious for mass killings. “But now, two children of Jehanabad and five of Aurangabad district are among the toppers in 2020 Matriculation examination of Bihar board. It is a story of change in Bihar. It is a story of development in Bihar during Nitish Kumar’s rule,” Jha said.