Khagaria/Bhojpur: INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said he would make Bihar a leading state in the country by bringing in investments and setting up factories, if the opposition coalition is voted to power.
Addressing back-to-back rallies in Parbatta and Alauli in Khagaria district and Shahpur in Bhojpur district, Yadav said he was fighting the elections not just to form a government but to build the state.
“We need to make Bihar number one, for which there is a need to bring investments, promote education and ensure proper health facilities,” he said.
Yadav criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah, claiming that the senior BJP leader has said that factories cannot be set up in Bihar because there is a dearth of land.
“We will set up factories in the state and bring investment to take Bihar on the development trajectory,” he said.
The RJD leader claimed the government led by PM Narendra Modi at the Centre has not even set up a needle factory in Bihar.
“He comes here only to defraud the people of the state. The PM sets up factories in Gujarat and seeks votes in Bihar,” he alleged.
Taking on the prohibition policy of the Nitish Kumar government, Yadav claimed the restrictions on the sale of liquor are just in name.
“While the administration is allowing home delivery of liquor for affluent sections of society, the poor, including women, are harassed through late-night raids. On the other side, rats are drinking thousands of litres of liquor in police stations,” he said, pointing to the allegations of alcohol “vanishing” after being seized.
He charged PM Modi and Shah of “hijacking” CM Kumar, who, he claimed, “is incapable of leading Bihar anymore”, asserting that the time for change has come.
Yadav said if the INDIA bloc is voted to power, a law will be enacted within 20 days to provide government jobs to every family, and the recruitments would be made in 20 months.
“Can’t see the pain of unemployed degree holders. For those who are questioning where I will bring the funds from to provide the promised jobs, I will reveal my plans in a few days,” he said.
Alleging that those in power were indifferent to the plight of the people of Khagaria due to the annual floods, he said the region remains inundated from July to December every year, with farmers facing a lot of problems.
“But no one, including the CM, comes here. I will ensure proper drainage facilities to eliminate the problem of waterlogging once and for all,” he promised the voters.
Yadav also reiterated his promise of regularising the services of contractual workers and community mobilisers alongside “giving the annual sum of Rs 30,000 to women in a single instalment within a few weeks after our government is formed”.
This, he said, is different from “the debt of Rs 10,000 given by the NDA government”.
“I will pray to ‘Chhathi maiyya’ to overthrow the NDA government, and relieve people of their pain and anguish,” he said.
