Highlighting how divisive agendas have harmed the state, PM Modi said, “Politics has hampered Bihar’s development; work which could have been done during A B Vajpayee’s time happening now”.
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“The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has alerted Bihar government and the Special Protection Group officials camping in the state to be on high alert for a possible human bomb attack against Modi during his visit to Patna and Muzaffarpur on Saturday”, a top police official said.
“I can see clearly that the second green revolution will take place from eastern states like Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam, and eastern Uttar Pradesh”, the Prime Minister told a function of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research here.
He said Bihar will be given a special package “bigger” than Rs 50,000 crore which he had promised earlier and that will be announced after the end of Monsoon session of Parliament as his “lips are sealed till then”. “Priority of my government is to devise plans suited to development of states”, he said. Din Dayal Rashtriya Gram and Sahri Jyoti Yojana, an ambitious rural electrification scheme is likely to be announced by Modi.
He said, “I want to ensure that Bihar gets connected optimally through the rail network” adding that “Today Gas Grid based economy is taking shape”.
Prime Minister will dedicate permanent campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Patna to the nation.
Not paying much heed to the poster war, BJP leader Rameshwar Chaurasia said, “BJP will form the government in Bihar”.
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Two powerful local leaders in Bihar – Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav – recently buried their differences to take on the BJP in the elections. He also inaugurated the Daniawan-Bihar Sharif new railway line and flagged off the Rajgir-Bihar Sharif-Daniawan-Fatua passenger train and Patna-Mumbai AC Suvidha Express.
