Hinting at mid-term polls for Lok Sabha, Union Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav urged his partymen to prepare for the next elections.
PURNIA: Hinting at mid-term polls for Lok Sabha, Union Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday urged his partymen to prepare for the next elections.
"I appeal to all my party workers to prepare for the next elections," Prasad said after laying foundation stone for a rail overbridge on National Highway 31 near Purnia railway junction.
Prasad's statement assumes significance in the face of the stand-off between the UPA government and the Left parties on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Earlier, addressing party workers for mobilising support for the proposed rally in Patna on October 28, he flayed the Nitish Kumar government for the 'deteriorating' law and order situation in the state.
"There has been an alarming rise in the incidents of murder, kidnapping and rape. There is no no law and order worth the name," he said.
Alleging scam in the recruitment of teachers on contract basis in Bihar, Prasad said, "Even trained aspirants for teaching posts were denied justice and now the state government is talking about imparting training to those who have been appointed on contract."
About the stampede on Wednesday at Mughalsarai railway station in Uttar Pradesh in which 15 women were killed, the minister said that he had already announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs two lakh each to the bereaved families besides a job in the railways.
He also inaugurated an unreserved computerised ticket booking counter at Purnia Railway junction.
Prasad said the broadgauge conversion of Katihar-Jogbani rail route would be completed shortly with an estimated investment of Rs 800 crore.
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