Samata wants Central package for Bihar

Kumar said “since the Chhotanagpur and Santhal Pargana plateau areas which are so rich in mineral resources would be separated from Bihar, special attention has to be paid to it”. Nitish Kumar said a delegationof his party would hand over to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, a detailed report suggesting steps to be taken for development of Bihar on April 25.He said the Samata Party had already constituted a five-member committee led by Lok Sabha member, Digvijay Singh, to formulate an `action plan’ for development of the State.

Raghunath Jha, Prem Chandra Mishra, Raghu Prasad Yadav and Sitaram Chamaria, were other members of the committee, Kumar added.

Meanwhile, the Samata Party also urged the Centre to take “necessary political and constitutional” initiatives for immediate dismissal of the Rashtriya Janata Dal ministry led by Rabri Devi. Kumar, told newspersons after a State-level conference of the party, that the meeting took serious exception to the alleged law and order breakdown in the State and felt that the “non-existent” Rabri Devi ministry had lost the “moral right to continue”. “There is complete anarchy and chaos in the State… complete `jungle raj’ prevails… And in the givencircumstances the RJD government should not be allowed to continue, even for a minute,” Kumar said quoting the resolution adopted at the meeting.

The meeting also urged the party’s Central leadership to take “concrete” initiative for ouster of the State Government.

Kumar said the Samata Party national executive, slated to meet in Delhi on April 25 and 26, would deliberate on the resolution adopted by the party’s State unit.