Lalu Yadav assails Nitish Kumar for 'belated initiative' on coaching

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today slammed Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for taking 'a belated initiative' to enact law to regulate the coaching institutes saying it was ''something like somebody abruptly coming out of deep slumber.''

"Kumar's initiative to enact a law to regulate coaching institutes in Bihar is a belated one...it is something like  a person has abruptly come out of deep slumber. A student lost his life in violent protests against the coaching institute operators on tuesday in Patna", Prasad told a group of reporters.

"There are several students who have to leave Bihar for the purpose of coaching in Rajasthan, Mumbai and New Delhi because of the highhandedness of the coaching institutes here
which are involved in cheating", he said.

"Nitish is talking about the law to monitor the coaching institutes at the time when his days as chief minister are numbered+, Kumar sarcastically remarked.

He demanded Rs 10 lakh compensation and a government job for next of kin of Sachin Sharma, an aspiring engineering student, who was killed in the protests. 

Prasad also accused the Nitish Kumar government of being hand in glove with owners of coaching institutes who were "running a parallel education system in Bihar".