Bihar CM a good marketing man: Sanjay Nirupam

Congress leader and party MP from north Mumbai Sanjay Nirupam today said Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was a good marketing man, 'but his products were not good'.

"The Nitish Kumar government has failed on all fronts, but Kumar has succeeded in selling sub-standard products as he is a good salesman," Nirupam told reporters at the party headquarters in Patna before leaving for Ara and Buxar to gear up the party ahead of November assembly elections in the state.

"The ground reality in Bihar is quite different from the rosy picture painted by the Bihar government," he said.

Kidnap for ransom, atrocities on dalits and other crimes were continuing though Kumar claimed to have ushered 'sushashan' (good governance during the past four-and-half-years rule of NDA rule, he alleged.

He also said that there was total peace in Mumbai with crime against the north Indians abating due to the efforts by Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and senior Congress leaders including AICC chairperson Sonia Gandhi.