Govt's achievements are not of your parties: Nitish to Ministers
The Hindu
Nitish Kumar disapproves of Ministers using govt achievements to boost party image. He urges them to credit govt, not parties. He praises Power Minister Bijendra Yadav for improving power situation in Patna.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on November 1 voiced disapproval of members of his Cabinet using achievements of the government to bolster the image of their respective parties.
The leader of the seven-party Mahagathbandhan made the remarks at a function, in which he unveiled electricity projects worth nearly ₹14,000 crore on the occasion of the 11th foundation day of Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited.
The function was attended, among others, by Power Minister Bijendra Yadav who belongs to the Chief Minister’s JD(U) and Alok Mehta, a top leader of the RJD who holds the key Revenue and Land Reforms portfolio.
Without pointing towards anyone in particular, Mr. Kumar said, “I notice that many of my Ministers, in their bid to grab headlines, end up giving credit for the government’s good work to their own parties. This is not appropriate.”
“Whenever I mention any good work done in Bihar I do not speak of it as my personal achievement. Similarly, all the Ministers should take care to remember that they must give credit to the government as a whole and not reserve their praise for their parties,” he said.
Besides JD(U) and RJD, the State Cabinet has a couple of Ministers from the Congress. Mr. Kumar joined the multi-party coalition last year, snapping an old partnership with the BJP.
The Opposition often claims that the Mahagathbandhan suffers from a lack of adequate trust among constituents, pointing out that Ministers of the JD(U) and the RJD sing paeans only to Mr. Kumar and Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, respectively.
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