Proceedings in the Upper House of the Bihar Assembly was rocked on Tuesday moments after it Assembled for the day. The leader of RJD in the Council Ghulam Ghouse, while raising the issue said all rules and regulations were thrown into wind for allotting prime plots of the BIADA, worth crores of rupees, to the wards of ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, bureaucrats etc.

He said that incidents like Forbesganj police firing, which led to the killing of four innocent people, was the outcome of this very illegal allotment of government land.

He appealed to the Chairman Tara Kant Jha to allow a debate on the matter. The Chairman, however, turned down the plea on the plea that some opposition leaders had already applied for a Call Attention Motion on the Forbesganj police firing and July 21 had been fixed for the same.

Upon this members of the RJD and Congress trooped into the well of the House demanding immediate cancellation of the allotments and resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the alleged loot of the BIADA land.

Upon this the Chairman adjourned the House till 1 PM. But when the Council met again, the agitating members did not give up their demand and kept pressing for a debate on the issue. The Opposition leaders including Chandan Bagchi of Congress and Nawal Kishore Yadav of RJD sat on dharna raising anti-government slogans.

Deputy leader in the Council Ganga Prasad of the BJP defended the state government. But the RJD and Congress members kept raising the slogans, thus forcing the Chairman to adjourn the House.

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What has happened to the enlightened people of Bihar?
By criticising the Opposition and some individuals, the
wrong and illegal acts cannot be made benign. In a democracy
you cannot prevent the opposition- however small- from raising
voice against the faulty policies of the executive and taking it to
the people.

Any government elected by whatsoever huge margin cannot run
a State on their own diktats.The government has to follow the provosions
of the Constitution of India, nothing else. I sincerely expect from those commenting,
to have a detailed look on the the Constitution of India, specially on the
part containing DPSPs.

Any person's open-book life or clean image or personal achievements is
not a sine qua non of a good, honest and a loved government.

And in this Parlimentary ( or perhaps in almost all other ) system the head of the
executive is held responsible for an act of the subordinate done with a foul
intent ( just like he/she is praised for benign acts),especially when he, the
Head, does not take any tangible action and tries to cover up the whole issue.

Therefore, the Opposition and other eminent persons, are more than fair in asking
questions and coining slogans, which are similar to ones coined for
former Head of the Government.After all, in present case , it is not the personal
property of the present Head which were gifted to the idustrialists-on-paper,
those were the properties of Bihar.For, any post of the Executive is transient,
not permanent and hereditary.

Raj
Delhi

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What a balanced and mature response! Kudos to you Ravi Shankar ji.

Alok Singh

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Whatever has emerged out over the so called land scam is certainly shocking "if it is really true". Its an administrative failure of Nitish Kumar without a single doubt. But also let me add that those crying and yelling in parliament as opposition with slogans like this, are not even eligible to sit in opposition, forget replacing Nitish Kumar as the CM. I also agree with one of the readers here that we people get angry and emotional without thinking for a second. One thing is a big truth. Life of Nitish Kumar has been open in public. Not a single of his family members have ever enjoyed or tried to enjoy the political power. So no way I can accept that Nitish Kumar is somehow involved. This all could be highly due to corrupt officials and ministers, who are fooling Bihar and Nitish Kumar. This is the matter of concern for Nitish Kumar that due to these poeple he may be painted as villain. It is his failure that he got surrounded with such people who put black blindfold before his eyes even if after inquiry it is proved that it was not a scam. Also media like IBN7 should be investigated for the way all of sudden this news has emerged out, which suggest for a big political A proper and in educated manner, media should also carry on the investigation as 90% of public here really don't know the rules and regulations.

Secondly, for out and out plain attackers like Shri KK Singh, his messages now don't carry much concern as I see that time and again he only emerges out with anti-Nitish article. We all agree that there are many wrongs thigns are coming out but that does not mean that Nitish Kumar is a terrible CM. His achievements have really been great and it is horrible to see KK Singh like of media person always trying to benchmark him in parallel of Laloo. Laloo and Congress are horror of Bihar. Nothing can be worst for Bihar than them. I feel media like you too should also practice a well enquired artticle and help this entire so called scam matter investigated properly and without bias and make the entire truth come. For some time I too have started feeling that Bihar Times is a bit overdoing to paint wrong impression of government in Bihar. The ratio of good vs bad news is very low at the portal. And with persons like KK Singh getting platform here, ranting and chanting for Sahabuddin and Lalu, trying to project them great leaders, as great revolutionists, only undermine the credibility of Bihartimes. I have been an old reader of BT, but this time I also felt that something is really going wrong way here. Half baked truths are more dangerous than lie. I hope BT performs due investigations before really calling persons in dock. Everything is so afresh Ajayji!

Ravi Shankar