Sonia calls Nitish Kumar ‘opportunist’,’corrupt’ in Bihar rally

“Nothing has been done in the fields of electricity,drinking water,health and education during the past five years,” Gandhi told an election rally here while canvassing support for her party nominees.

“The Centre has provided resources and means for these sectors… but unfortunately,the state government has failed to properly utilise them for the benefits of common people,” Gandhi said.

She said Nitish is not what he appears to be in public and used a Hindi idiom ‘Haathi ke daant khane ke aur or dikhane ke aur’ to drive home her point.

Gandhi said the person who has been ruling the state for the last five years has always tried to shift the onus of his failure on the Centre.

“But the fact is that the Centre has fully cooperated with the state… but the state government has failed to bring the Central funds to proper use,” she said.

Gandhi also accused the Nitish Kumar government of its apathy towards the silk industry in Bhagalpur because of which the weavers were facing hardship.

“There is no drinking water available in Bhagalpur and industries are not coming up for paucity of power… the truth has now started coming to fore,” she said.

She also wanted to know what the state government had done for the recruitment of teachers.

She alleged that the state government had miserably failed to reach the benefits of major schemes including MNREGA,Right to Education and other welfare schemes to those intended.

Questioning Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s claim of having a secular agenda,Gandhi said he was “involved in politics of opportunism joining hands with the communal forces.”

“Congress alone is the secular party which can develop the state without any discrimination in the society,” she said.