Lalu dares Nitish to dissolve assembly and face election

PATNA: Railway minister Lalu Prasad on Thursday dared Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to dissolve the state assembly and face a mid-term election to test his popularity, which he claimed was at its lowest ebb.
    
"I challenge Nitish Kumar to dissolve the assembly and go for a mid-term election to test his popularity which is at its lowest ebb with spiralling crime and practically no development. Total darkness envelops the state," the RJD chief said.
    
Prasad was reacting to Kumar's comments at a BJP function here yesterday where the Chief Minister had said that RJD President was scared of a mid-term parliamentary poll.
    
"One moment he raises the hand of A B Bardhan (CPI General Secretary), at another he lifts the hand of Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M Politburo member). If you have courage, let us face election and allow people to decide which party or conglomeration of parties can give the country a stable government," Kumar had said referring to Prasad's antics at a meeting of the UPA-left committee on nuclear deal in Delhi recently.
    
"The bureaucracy dominates the people. It is very unfortunate that Bihar has got a Chief Minister like Nitish Kumar, who is creating hurdles in the way of state's development by blocking railway projects worth several thousand crore of rupees through delay in land acquisition," Prasad charged.