Nitish Kumar on Monday said he was least bothered about the outcome of trust vote in Parliament as people would teach the UPA a lesson in the upcoming elections.
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he was least bothered about the outcome of trust vote in Parliament as people would teach the UPA a lesson in the upcoming elections.
"We are in an election year. Whether the government survives or not... whether the elections are held on time, one thing is clear that voters will teach a lesson to the UPA in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections," Kumar said.
"Even if the UPA survives the trust motion, the people will remove it in the coming elections," Kumar said.
He said if the UPA government survived, it would not not be on the strength of alliance partners but on the basis of "poaching."
Kumar charged the Centre of trying to create bottlenecks in projects aimed at developing the state.
Kumar said inflation which has almost reached 12 per cent and not the nuclear deal would be the main election issue, particularly in Bihar.
"We will go to the electorate with facts and figures and seek their support to bring NDA back to power at the Centre if they want their grievances to be redressed," Kumar said.
The Centre, he said, did not compensate the relief fund spent on providing succour to flood affected people during last year's floods. It also banned the production of ethanol (biofuel) by sugar industries in November 2007 and discouraged investors from coming to Bihar.
"We are not at the mercy of the Centre -- we have our own resources to make Bihar a developed state and those trying to put the brakes on the development of Bihar will face the music at the hustings," Kumar said.
Refering to the decision of Ram Swaroop Prasad, a JD(U) MP from Nalanda, to support the UPA government, he said the drama being played out in New Delhi has come as a windfall for people who wait for just such a situation.
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