Nitish Kumar working under pressure: Manjhi

May 24, 2016 12:00 am | Updated September 12, 2016 08:22 pm IST - Patna:

Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was working under someone’s pressure and thus “failed” to deliver especially on the law and order front in the State.

“Nitish Kumar is under pressure and hence he would not be able to do anything (on taking action),” the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) president said while referring to cases with regard to RJD leaders Raj Ballabh Yadav, Shahabuddin and others.

“Nitish Kumar ran a good government during 2005-13 but suddenly what happened that things are slipping out of his control. With so much vast experience of running the administration, he would have fared much better, but he is proving to be a ‘Nakara’ (non performer),” Mr. Manjhi told reporters here.

Refusing to name the person under whose pressure Mr. Kumar was working, he said that “everyone knows it.”

Till now, people use to hear the incidents of murders, rapes, kidnappings, bank dacoities, but now media were being targeted.

It was an appropriate time to impose President’s rule in Bihar and if that was not done, it would be a big injustice to the people of the state, he said. - PTI

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