Bihar: Sushil Kumar Modi challenges Rabri Devi’s charges

PATNA: The debate in Bihar Vidhan Parishad on Friday on the governor’s address turned into a political allegations levelled by the ruling and opposition MLCs against each other.
JD(U) MLC Neeraj Kumar said the opposition should stop crying over people’s mandate. Without naming anyone, he said the jail manual was being violated. He even took a jibe at the ten lakh job promise made by Mahagathbandhan leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav during the elections.However, former CM Rabri Devi asked Neeraj to have discussion on 55 scams during the Nitish Kumar’s regime. Other RJD MLCs also joined Rabri.
On the governor’s speech, MLC Suman Kumar said both the state and central government had stood with the poor during Covid-19 pandemic. “Those who did not have ration card were also given ration. Almost 85 lakh people got free ration and gas cylinders for three months,” Suman said.
Congress MLC Prem Chandra Mishra hit out at the state government over health and education infrastructure. He again raised the issue of Maithili language. He said for the first time in Bihar’s history, the largest party was sitting in the opposition.
In the second half of the session, former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said people have given mandate to the NDA and 125 seats were more than the majority mark. He said the opposition was first not ready for the election and then they called EVM as Modi Voting machine. He cited the results of those assembly constituencies where NDA candidates had lost by small margins.
On the Rabri’s allegations on SuMo that he acquired huge property in Lodipur, the BJP MLC said he will donate it if it was found that he owned even one inch of land there.
Acting chairman of the Vidhan Parishad, Awadhesh Narayan Singh adjourned the House sine die.