'We won the last two assembly polls on basis of performance, will win the next one on same ground,' Nitish Kumar tells JD(U) workers

PATNA: JD(U) president and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said he registered victory in the last two assembly elections (2010 & 2015) on the basis of performance of his government in the respective previous five years and would secure next victory in the coming assembly election on the same ground.
Addressing his party’s district-level virtual workers’ sammelan through a video App from the state capital, Nitish also coined a formula of ‘90% versus 10%’ for the workers to ensure victory in 2020 assembly polls.He asked the party workers to spend only 10% of their time in giving replies against the misinformation campaign of the opposition parties. "The rest 90% of the time should be spent on informing and educating common people, with data and facts, about the development works done by his government in the last 15 years," the JD(U) chief told the party workers.
On Wednesday, he addressed booth-to-district level workers of altogether nine districts in four separate sessions. In the first session, Nitish addressed the workers of Samastipur district, while those of Begusarai and Khagaria in the second session. Similarly, the workers from Bhagalpur and Banka were addressed in the third session and those from Munger, Lakhisarai, Jamui and Sheikhpura districts could heard the party chief in the fourth and last session of the day.
The JD(U) chief also revealed that his government was going to make certain amendments in the state industrial investment promotion policy to attract new industries in the state. He 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 the party workers, 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 last 15 years?" Nitish asked from the workers 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 asked.
Around 5,500 to 5,600 workers participated in each of the four sessions of the virtual workers’ sammelan, which was conducted by JD(U) national general secretary and state’s water resources minister 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.