"Communalism is again rearing its ugly head," Prasad said addressing RJD leaders after inaugurating a two-day brainstorming session here.
RAMGARH (BIHAR): Cautioning against resurgence of communalism, Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday said projection of L K Advani as BJP's prime ministerial candidate reflected the saffron party's reversion to its communal agenda.
"Communalism is again rearing its ugly head," Prasad said addressing RJD leaders after inaugurating a two-day brainstorming session here.
Claiming that people in BJP-ruled states were living in 'constant terror', he said: "The peace loving and secular electorate and RJD workers have to be wary of the party of rioters and teach them a befitting lesson in the elections."
Slamming Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for claiming credit for the compensation package announced by the Centre for the Bhagalpur communal riots victims on par with those of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Prasad accused him of doing politics over it.
"The credit for the compensation package goes entirely to the UPA government at the Centre ... Nitish Kumar is trying to mislead the people by claiming that it was due to the endeavour of his government that the Centre announced the compensation," he said.
Lambasting the Nitish Kumar government for being an 'abject failure' on all fronts, Prasad said: "He (Nitish) is cheating the people by making promises that he is incapable of keeping."
"No law and order and absolutely no development. The government which is patting itself on the back for good governance is steeped in corruption," he charged and said "Democracy is weighed down by officialdom in Bihar."
RJD national vice-president and Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh slammed the state's NDA government for the 'slipshod' implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Centre's flagship scheme for the rural poor.
"Job cards have not been provided to lakhs of people living below the poverty line and even those who have got it are having to go without jobs. There are glaring irregularities in the preparation of the BPL list in which even affluent sections have found place," Singh said.
He claimed that while the NDA government gave Bihar just around Rs 22,000 crore for development during over six years that it was in power at the Centre, the present UPA government had made available to the state a whopping Rs 67,000 crore so far.
The two-day brainstorming camp is being attended by RJD ministers in the union government, MPs and legislators, both present and former and office bearers of the party from national to district level.
The leaders would discuss among other things the strategy for the impending Lok Sabha elections and identify its strength and weaknesses for an improved showing at the hustings.
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