Bihar CM believes in all-round growth: RCP at JD(U) meet

PATNA: JD(U) national general secretary (organisation) R C P Singh on Thursday said chief minister Nitish Kumar was more concerned about voters than votes.
Addressing workers of the party through social media platforms on the sixth day of the party’s virtual campaign in the run up to the assembly polls, Singh said Nitish has always provided opportunities to people who were left behind and remained aloof from mainstream of the society.
“He believes in ‘samagra vikas’ (all-round development) and has adopted the policy of ‘samavesi vikas’. It’s because of this policy that Bihar, which once was the seat of knowledge and power, has been gaining the lost glory, albeit slowly,” he said.
Highlighting the initiatives of the state government in the field of technical education, the JD(U) Rajya Sabha member said at present the state boasted of having an engineering college in each district in which altogether 9,215 students are enrolled.
“In addition, there are 13 private engineering institutions imparting education to eligible students. Similarly, 12,000 students were enrolled in the 44 government polytechnic colleges. Besides 24 colleges were operating under the private sector in the state,” he said.
Taking a dig at RJD, Singh said people never thought of such well-managed technical educational institutions in the state before 2005. Referring to “mismanaged” health services during RJD rule, the JD(U) leader said, “People used to visit government hospitals only to get autopsy reports.”
“It’s needless to say that a drastic change has been brought about in the health sector in the last 15 years,” he added. Singh also asked the party functionaries to complete the process of selection of presidents and secretaries at polling booths on time in view of the EC’s guidelines to restrict the number of voters to 1,000 at a particular polling booth in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic.
State information and republic relations department minister Niraj Kumar Singh said the response time is more relevant for people now. Slamming leader of opposition in state assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Niraj said, “What one can expect from a man who can’t differentiate between an approach road and a bridge.”
State transport minister Santosh Nirala said the contributions of Nitish in the economic, social and academic uplift of the downtrodden couldn’t be ignored and the members of the supressed community would always be thankful to him for giving them honour and respect.
Without naming anyone, Munger MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan said the man, whose name once spelt terror in Siwan region, is lodged in Tihar jail.
“What Nitish had promised to the people earlier was successfully translated into action. The JD(U) will fight the upcoming election on the basis of development works undertaken during Nitish’s leadership,” he added.
Earlier, addressing another virtual rally, Rajya Sabha member Harivansh Narayan Singh said proper implementation of Public Grievance Redressal Act has proved a milestone as far as curbing corruption and quick delivery of justice to people is concerned.
State energy minister and former JD(U) state president Vijendra Prasad Yadav, state party president and Rajya Sabha member Vashishtha Narayan Singh, MP Chandreshwar Prasad Chandrawanshi and MLA Abhay Kushwaha also addressed workers of the party.