PATNA,: Union minister Chirag Paswan on Tuesday expressed willingness to take “sturdy steps” to make sure that issues of scholars protesting alleged irregularities in a latest BPSC examination had been squarely addressed by the Nitish Kumar authorities in Bihar. The Hajipur MP had a free-wheeling interplay with the media right here on the sidelines of a feast organised by his Lok Janshakti Occasion (Ram Vilas) on the event of the Makar Sankranti pageant.
Requested concerning the Bihar Public Service Fee examination row, Paswan mentioned, “I’ve mentioned it up to now and want to reiterate that Lok Janshakti Occasion (Ram Vilas) is with the scholars on the difficulty. We imagine that their voices should be heard and an answer should be arrived at.” Numerous college students have been demanding cancellation of the Mixed Aggressive Examination held on December 13, during which greater than 4 lakh candidates had appeared, amid allegations of irregularities.
“As an NDA companion, my social gathering has been elevating the difficulty inside the coalition, to the extent it’s doable. We might be with the scholars underneath all circumstances. If required, we won’t shrink back from taking sturdy steps. We hope that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will take heed to their grievances,” Paswan mentioned.
He additionally rejected the opposition cost that his failure to show up on the social gathering workplace when Kumar had arrived to attend the Makar Sankranti festivities, was tantamount to an “insult” to the septuagenarian. The CM had reached the LJPP(RV) workplace round 10 am, practically two hours earlier than the feast was to formally begin, sending the social gathering’s functionaries right into a tizzy. Kumar spent a couple of minutes on the Wheeler Street workplace.
“Please don’t view it as an insult. I used to be at my residence, collaborating in a puja which I couldn’t depart halfway. Else, I’d have made a touch to the social gathering workplace. I respect that the chief minister has a good schedule and is entitled to plan his visits as per his comfort. We’re grateful that he took day off and got here all the way down to our new workplace. My social gathering colleagues tried their greatest to accord him an honest welcome,” Paswan mentioned.
He additionally exuded confidence that the NDA will win the meeting polls in Bihar, due later this yr, when individuals would vote for a “double engine authorities”. “The individuals are conscious of the precedence Bihar is getting underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The state now has two AIIMS, a far cry from the previous when all the nation had only one such super-speciality hospital,” mentioned Paswan.
He additionally claimed that the opposition ‘Mahagathbandhan’ will come aside, “as we have now seen in Delhi the place the Aam Aadmi Occasion’s choice to contest towards the Congress is being backed by Samajwadi Occasion and Trinamool Congress”. “What a fall it has been for the Congress, from the heights it had scaled through the tenure of late Sheila Dikshit. Ever because the social gathering’s management has fallen into the palms of Rahul Gandhi, it has been in disarray. However, it believes it carried out nicely within the Lok Sabha polls and has grown formidable. This is able to undoubtedly have its penalties in Bihar the place its allies might be unwilling to be too accommodating,” the Hajipur MP mentioned.
He scoffed on the suggestion that the RJD, which helms the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, was staying out of the electoral battle in Delhi to assist the Congress. “What presence does the RJD have in Delhi? Furthermore, the large Bihari inhabitants there was a sufferer of their jungle raj, and if the social gathering even campaigns for Congress or AAP, it might solely backfire,” claimed Paswan.
