But on the last day of the year former minister Shakeel Ahmad Khan, showered fulsome praise on the same chief minister for transferring land for the AMU.
Now he accused the opposition parties for spreading the canard that the Nitish-led NDA government was not interested in this project due to pressure from BJP.
He now said that with the transfer of land to AMU, Nitish has forcefully replied to the allegations hurled by the opposition, which stage managed protests in Kishanganj. The chief minister has proved beyond doubt that he is for educational empowerment of people and fulfilled his commitment.
Now the former RJD stalwart said that the ball is in the court of the Centre as well as the AMU for constructing buildings and setting up other infrastructure and start academic session. The state government is committed to extend all possible help in the establishment of AMU centre, he added.
The reality is that AMU, like IIT, CUB and Nalanda International University, is a central government institutions and the state was bound to give land to it. In many other states even the classes have started whereas in Bihar the state government has only allotted the land two days back.
In the past respective states governments had been allotting land for the central projects in matter of months, be it for the East Central Railway in 1997 or Railway Workshop in Harnaut or NTPC in Barh etc. It is during the present regime that transfer of land has become a bone of contention.

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