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Patna,(BiharTimes): Stating that it was none else but the NDA which was in power in the year 2000 when the Bihar Assembly unanimously passed a resolution demanding a package of Rs 1,79,000 crore on the eve of carving out of Jharkhand the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday opposed any demand for special status to Bihar on the plea that it would make the state dependent on the Centre like the north eastern states. |
The NCP general secretary, Tariq Anwar, asked the state government to instead spend the central fund in a judicious manner for development purposes which it has not been doing as highlighted by the CAG report.
Now that the NDA is out of power at the Centre, it is raising the demand for special status to Bihar for political convenience, Tariq said adding that the present chief minister was then in the Union cabinet.
He said that the Nitish Kumar government should take lesson from Haryana and Punjab, which were not given special benefits at the time of reorganization of the states in 1960s, but have become developed states with their own resources.
Dubbing the demand for special category raised repeatedly by Janata Dal (United) and BJP as as politically motivated he said that his party wants the state to be self-dependent for development.
Tariq alleged that the Nitish government was trying to abdicate its responsbility for the prevailing economic backwardness of the state by passing the buck on the Centre.
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