Law & order and development badly hit in Bihar, claims BJP

The BJP today claimed that Bihar has been suffering from perception deficit since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar unilaterally severed relations with it five months ago.
"Bihar has been suffering from perception deficit even as the law and order and development has taken a beating ever since the Chief Minister unilaterally dumped the BJP five months ago," senior BJP leader and former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said, after releasing his party's report card on the performance of the Nitish Kumar government.
Showcasing unity in the state BJP unit, Modi was flanked by 10 ministers, who were sacked along with him by the Chief Minister five months ago, and state unit chief Mangal Pandey.

"Governance has become the biggest casualty in Bihar over the past five months since the JD(U) has been ruling the state on its own after severing ties with the BJP," he said.
Bihar has been hit by terror attacks in Bodh Gaya and Patna, while the Maoist violence has spurted by 41 per cent even as crime has increased alarmingly so much so to affect perception about the state which the two erstwhile allies had worked hard to overcome after prolonged lawlessness during the RJD rule in Bihar for 15 years, Modi claimed.
The Chief Minister has become hamstrung after showing doors to its ally which had provided him crucial strength and support all these years with a single minded agenda to ensure survival of his government on day-to-day basis, he said, adding that Kumar has had no time to conduct review meeting to monitor progress of development and welfare schemes.

The then NDA government had launched two flagship schemes - Human Development Mission and Agriculture Roadmap, but no review meeting has been held by the Chief Minister since June/July this year, Modi said, adding monitoring of various schemes at district level too has been done away with as neither the ministers nor bureaucrats have time or interest to look into these matters anymore.
The Chief Minister's much-touted industrialisation too has failed to take off in Bihar as 90 per cent out of private investment worth Rs three lakh crore did not come at all due to scarcity of land, a fact that even the state government undertaking - Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA) - has acknowledged in an advertisement recently, the former deputy Chief Minister said.