Nitish Kumar's love for Mahadalits 'eyewash': Paswan

Describing as 'eyewash' the Nitish Kumar government's 'love for mahadalits', Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan today said an LJP panel had highlighted the miseries facing the dalits and mahadalits in Bihar.
      
"Kumar's love for mahadalits is nothing but an eyewash...Our party probe team has uncovered the plights of the dalits and Mahadalits in Bihar," Paswan told reporters.
  
"No relief has reached the mahadalits and their condiion is deteriorating day by day in the name of measures taken to uplift them", he said.
    
"No transistors have been distributed...roads are in dilapidated condition in the areas dominated by mahadalits and dalits... there is no proper school and they struggle hard for managing two square meals", Paswan alleged and wondered "what kind of love for dalits/mahadalits" was all this about.
    
Turning to Kalyanbigha, the ancestral home of Nitish Kumar which has been converted into a model village by the state government, he said the fact-finding team found that the names of 300 mahadalit houeholds were missing in the list of BPL, no house had been constructed under Indira Awas Yojana, and old-age people had been deprived of social security pension.

"People can well imagine what will be plight of the mahadalits in other parts of the state," he commented and blamed Kumar "of doing politics in the names of dalits and mahadalits keeping an eye on the 2010 assembly poll."