LJP govt will send Nitish to jail for promoting corruption in seven resolves implementation: Chirag
Patna/Arwal/Nokha: Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan Monday alleged corruption in Nitish Kumars flagship 'Saat Nishchay' (seven resolves) scheme and said if voted to power he will get it probed and send to jail those found guilty, including the chief minister.
The LJP chief also raised accusing finger on Kumar in the implementation of prohibition laws in the state and accused the CM of gaining from smuggling of liquor into the state.
"Why not, if found guilty. Just because he is chief minister he wont go to jail? Corruption is taking place right under his nose, Chirag told PTI-Bhasha over phone from Arwal when asked if he indeed intends to send Kumar to jail on charge of corruption in the implementation of seven resolves.
"Saat Nishchay is a scheme formulated by him. We will get it probed after an LJP government is formed. And if found guilty, the chief minister will also go to jail," he said.
Earlier, talking to reporters at Patna airport before flying for his election rallies, Chirag said "12 crore Biharis, including ministers in his cabinet and media persons, know about widespread corruption in implementation of seven resolves".
Continuing with his tirade against Kumar, the LJP president alleged illegal trade in liquor is rampant in the state due to patronage of the bigwigs in the Nitish Kumar's government.
"Why doesn't he gets this inquired too?" Chirag asked.
While talking to PTI-Bhasha from Arwal, he made serious charge on Kumar saying, "he is promoting smuggling of liquor during prohibition and a fat sum of money from this illegal trade is going in his pocket for furtherance of his political ambition."
Kumar's government has declared Bihar a dry state since April 2016.
Chirag, who is campaiging for his party alone in the absence of his father late Ram Vilas Paswan, has been attacking Kumar on a daily basis in his election rallies as well as on social media.
Addressing a poll rally in Nokha in Rohtas district, he alleged the chief minister "lied" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he has been able to build drainage and streets and provide piped water to everybody in the state.
"The chief minister says there is no corruption in Bihar, whereas the corruption in Saat Nishchay is the biggest in the history of Bihar," Paswan alleged.
"Therefore, we have mentioned in our Bihar First Bihari First vision document that when voted to power we will identify those involved in corruption in Saat Nishchay and send them to jail, whether a small officer or the chief minister himself," he said at his Nokha rally.
Nitish Kumar had announced the Rs 2.70 lakh-crore 'Saat Nischay' scheme for Bihar's development during the 2015 assembly election campaign.
The scheme aims at making younger generation self- reliant through education, skill development and education loan, besides providing electricity connection to all villages, piped water to every household, and road and drainage in urban areas.
The Bihar Cabinet had in February 2016 given nod to implement the scheme over five years. Until recently, the LJP was part of the NDA in Bihar whose primary constituents are the JD(U) and the BJP.
After walking out of the NDA in the state, the LJP chief has been asserting that he would ensure that Kumar don't return to power in the state.
While, the chief minister himself is refraining from reacting to allegations of Chirag, his partymen and the NDA ally HAM hit back at the LJP chief.
Bihar JD(U) president Basistha Narayan Singh has alleged that there was a "nexus between Chirag and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and both are making baseless charges against Kumar to gain publicity and also for their political survival."
Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's headed Hindustani Awam Morcha, an associate partner of the JD(U) in the NDA, made a scathing attack on Chirag.
"You (Chirag) are a 'videshi chiriyan' (foreign bird) who is seen in Bihar only during election. Before claiming yourselve as 'yuva Bihari' you should know about Bihar," HAM general secretary Danish Rizwan said in a tweet and asked the LJP president to correctly spell name of the place Dumraon in hindi.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
