Govt machinery has no control over Maoists: Congress

Lambasting the NDA government in Bihar, the Congress today said the killing of 12 people at Phulwaria Korasi village in Bihar's Jamui district has proved beyond doubt that Maoists were ruling the roost in rural areas and the state machinery had no control over them.

Bihar PCC president Anil Kumar Sharma said the Nitish Kumar government had failed to initiate adequate measures against the ultras killing innocent persons in rural Bihar.

The chief minister should provide compensation and a government job to one member of the family of each person killed by the Naxalites, he said.

Sharma also charged the state government with not utilising the central fund made available to the state to counter the naxal menace.