Nitish Kumar using dalits for political gains: RJD

RJD national general secretary and spokesperson Ram Kirpal Yadav today charged Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar with dividing the society on caste lines by creating a Mahadalit Commission and diverting the funds released for the SCs and STs by the Centre.
   
Addressing a function organised by ''Bhhuiyan and Musahar'' community at the party headquarters, Yadav and deputy leader of the opposition in the state assembly Shakeel Ahmed Khan said that the trick of Nitish Kumar constituting a Mahadalit Commission and not providing the status of mahadalits to the Paswans would boomerang as the Paswans would teach the NDA a lesson in the upcoming assembly eletions.
   
The two RJD leaders said the Paswans form 30.9% (40.2 lakh)  of the 1.30 crore SC population and they would vote in toto in favour of the RJD-LJP combine as the NDA government had shown them a cold shoulder.
   
The RJD leaders wanted a clear cut reply from Kumar as to why people were dying of hunger in rural Bihar. ''Depsite the state claims that not a single person had died of starvation we have definite information that about 500 people have died of starvation in the state'', they said.
   
While Kumar was talking about development, not a single industry has been set up in the state in the past four and half years rule of the NDA in Bihar, the RJD leaders alleged.