FM Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the establishment of the Makhana Board in Bihar. She also announced that Greenfield airports will be felicitated in Bihar in addition to the expansion of the capacity of the Patna Airport and a brownfield airport in Bihta.
"I was also present in the meeting of INDIA alliance where Nitish Kumar kept raising the issue of caste census in every meeting... Rahul Gandhi remained silent on it," Jha told reporters.
Slamming Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi for calling the Bihar caste census 'fake,' JDU leader Rajiv Ranjan Prasad on Saturday said that he must speak about his party's tenure of 55 years and tell what they did for reservation and regarding the caste census.
Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Chirag Paswan on January 9, exuded confidence of NDA forming government in Bihar in assembly polls later this year and said the ruling alliance will win over 225 seats.
Ahead of the upcoming legislative elections in Bihar, RJD MP and Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter, Misa Bharti, has dropped what could be widely deemed a big hint of what the coming weeks might hold for the state's political landscape.
Speaking to ANI, JDU MP Sanjay Kumar Jha said, "The INDIA alliance adopted a grand name, something that even Nitish Kumar opposed, but there was always a lack of unity within it. The people of the INDIA alliance cannot see beyond one family."
Reacting to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's statement that alliance doors are always open for CM Nitish Kumar, Union Minister and JDU leader Lallan Singh on Thursday affirmed that his party is with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
"It's saddening for all of us. It's an irreparable loss for society. He was not just an administrative officer - when he took retirement - he left an imprint in the spiritual world. How temples can be in the service of the people - Hanuman temple of Patna is one such example..." Giriraj Sing
Speaking to ANI, Jha slammed Kejriwal, by pointing out that when Nitish Kumar resigned from the CM post, he made a Mahadalit' (Jitan Ram Manjhi in 2014-15) the Chief Minister. He further questioned why did he not appoint a Dalit CM in Delhi, upon resigning or in Punjab.
Jha said, "...Our party welcomes this. We had approached this committee, I too was there...Nitish Kumar has always supported simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha. We had told the committee that our party supports it...We see that the country is always in election mode...So, t