Ravi Shankar Prasad cancels meetings to reach out to Patna floods victims

All this is being recounted gleefully to highlight Nitish Kumar's failure.

Detractors of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in his alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) say, Kumar did nothing to alleviate the suffering of Patna residents during the floods and it was not until Lok Sabha MP from Patna Saheb and Union Minister for Law and Telecom Ravi Shankar Prasad reached Patna on the night of September 29, that some sort of rescue effort began. Prasad cancelled several high-level meetings, spoke to Union Minister for Coal Prahlad Joshi and sought four de-watering pumps that are used in coal mines to be sent immediately to Patna from Chhattisgarh. The 18-member