A day ahead of Prime Minister’s visit to Bihar, deputy chief minister Tejaswi Yadav along with other grand secular alliance leaders indicated they were ready to take their demands for special status category for the state to the next level.
Alleging that the Centre was not cooperating with Bihar, Mr Yadav on Friday said, “The Prime Minister may overlook our demands for special status category which was announced by him earlier during elections.”
“Eleven crore Biharis are eagerly waiting for the PM to fulfil his promises for special status for Bihar and also the special package which was announced,” he said.
Mounting a scathing attack on Mr Modi and terming the special package as “fictitious”, he said the package announced by the Prime Minister in 2015 was so special that it never got down to the surface.
“The theatrics with which Narendra Modi ji’s fictitious special package was announced, he should apologise to people of Bihar in the same style for not keeping his word,” Mr Yadav tweeted on Friday.
Earlier in March, while reacting to the budget speech, chief minister Nitish Kumar had expressed his surprise that the special package didn’t figure at all in finance minister’s budget speech.
Mr Modi’s March 12 visit will be his first after NDA’s humiliating defeat in the Assembly polls.
