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Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday accused the NDA government of being both a “vote thief” and a “land grabber” in Bihar, alleging it handed over over 1,000 acres in Bhagalpur to the Adani Group at a “throwaway price” for a power plant project.
Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday alleged that the NDA government which was formed through "vote chori" is also a "zameen chor (land grabber)" in Bihar.
He was referring to the NDA government at the Centre providing more than 1000 acres of land to the Adani Group allegedly at a "throwaway price" for setting up a power plant in Bihar's Bhagalpur.
"The government formed through vote chori is also 'zameen chor, munafa khor (profiteer) and bachat chor' (revenue thief)," Kumar alleged at a press conference here.
The NDA government in Bihar is hell bent on diverting Bihar's resources to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's friends, he claimed.
Kumar said that the state Congress has initiated a series, "20 Saal, 20 Sawaal" (20 years, 20 questions), under which party leaders will question and "expose" the government on various issues concerning the people of Bihar.
The opposition party is alluding to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 20-year rule of the state.
On the first day of the campaign, Kanhaiya Kumar raised questions on the allotment of 1,000 acres of land, allegedly at a rate of Re 1 per acre in Bhagalpur, to the Adani group.
Kumar claimed, "The Central government has diverted Rs 21,000 crore, allotted for a power plant project in the state, towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's friend Adani."
The project, initiated by the UPA government, has been hijacked by the NDA, the Congress leader alleged.
Kumar claimed that the Rs 1 lakh crore revenue accruing from the project, which was meant to benefit the people of Bihar, will now be appropriated by a corporate house.
"Adani has been signing power plant contracts at the promise of offering electricity at Rs 3-3.5 per unit elsewhere in the country, but when it comes to Bihar, the cost has been fixed over Rs 6 per unit," he claimed.
Kumar said, "Even if the price was fixed at Rs 5 per unit, Bihar would have saved Rs 56,000 crore. The irony is that the government took the land from people at an old rate and has offered it to a corporate house by agreeing to new rates for electricity".
The entire episode, Kumar summed up, leaves people with three questions: "Why was the corporate house given the land at a throwaway price? Why has the profit of Rs 1 lakh crore been diverted from the Bihar people to the corporate house? Why has the cost of electricity been fixed so high in the state as part of the project deal?"
He alleged that the government is planning to grab people's land in Bihar under the guise of conducting a land survey.
The Congress leader said, "The government is acting as a 'lathaith' (a person adept in using sticks); it uses the sticks of governance and administration to benefit corporates at the cost of the poor people."
He wondered what the "sick, useless double-engine government" had done for the people of the state in the last 20 years.
The Congress leader also criticised the NDA government for allegedly organising an RSS event at Rajasthan University on September 30, using people's money.
"The university is a government property and cannot be allowed to become a breeding ground of any particular ideology," he asserted.
Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now! Kumar alleged that NSUI protestors, who opposed the event in the BJP-ruled state, were harassed by the police.
Source: EconomicTimes
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