Dubbing Nitish Kumar as an "opportunist", she charged, 'There are complaints of corruption... but no tangible step has been taken to tackle this.'
Stepping up attack on the Nitish Kumar government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today charged that the Bihar administration had failed on all fronts, including health and education sectors, despite getting crores of money from the Centre.
Dubbing Kumar as an "opportunist", she charged, "There are complaints of corruption... but no tangible step has been taken to tackle this."
"Nothing has been done in the fields of electricity, drinking water, health and education during the past five years," Gandhi told an election rally in Bhagalpur 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 the point.
Gandhi said the person who has been ruling the state for the past 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 Nitish Kumar government of its apathy toward the silk industry in Bhagalpur because of which the weavers were facing hardship.
"There is no 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 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 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.
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