Raj of families in cabinet: Tejashwi
PATNA, May 9 -- Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Friday accused the NDA government in Bihar of promoting familism and dynastic politics while showing little concern for governance or development, just six months after taking office. Addressing a press conference at the RJD office, Yadav said the recent cabinet expansion lacked any vision and was packed with "family members, corrupt elements and those involved in criminal cases."
Yadav criticised the induction of several "leader's sons" into the Samrat Choudhary cabinet without them having contested elections or being members of the assembly. "Nitish Kumar's son Nishant and Upendra Kushwaha's son Deepak Prakash have been made ministers without any popular mandate. Why is there no discussion on this now?" he asked. Pointing out that around 17 ministers in the cabinet were products of family politics, he named three former chief ministers' sons - Nitish Kumar's, Jitan Ram Manjhi's and former CM Jagannath Mishra's - who were sworn in. The former deputy chief minister said the NDA, which once lectured others on dynasty politics, had itself embraced it fully.
He also targeted the government over the recent lathi charge on TRE-4 teacher job aspirants in Patna. "This is a clear message from the government that anyone demanding jobs and employment in Bihar will be silenced with sticks," Yadav said. He warned that the state was heading towards a situation where youth seeking livelihoods would be met with force rather than opportunities.
The RJD leader contrasted this with the grand oath-taking ceremony where people were reportedly brought in buses, saying the government was good at optics but failed to deliver on basic issues like education, health, employment and irrigation. Yadav further alleged that the cabinet expansion ignored regional and social balance. He noted the inadequate representation of several backward castes and only one Muslim minister, compared to seven or eight during the earlier RJD regimes led by Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi. "There is neither caste balance nor regional balance. Even BJP veteran Vijay Sinha, who served as assembly speaker and deputy CM, has been marginalised," he remarked. The RJD leader alleged that the state government was running through "media management and PR" rather than addressing real issues. He highlighted issues like delayed salaries and pensions, the renaming of departments and the chief minister's residence, and the lack of progress on key scams and incidents such as the creation scam, girls' shelter home case and the NEET controversy. "This government cannot build Indira Awas houses for the poor but talks of building new townships," he said....
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