Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
on Sunday rubbished Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s
charge of some states not co-operating in arresting sky
rocketing prices of essential commodities and alleged that the
problem was the gift of “faulty policies” of the Congress.
“I don’t subscribe to Pawar’s charge about inability of
states to control skyrocketing prices of essential
commodities,” Kumar told reporters today.
"Whenever the Congress came to power at the Centre, it
gifted the nation with uncontrolled price rise,” Kumar said.
Accusing Pawar of making such statements out of sheer
frustration following the Centre’s failure to rein in rising
prices, the Chief Minister said that the NDA government had
done all the best possible to check spiralling prices.
“We are undertaking a drive against hoarding and black
marketers are being penalized. We have left no stone unturned
to reach food grains to the people despite soaring prices of
essential commodities,” Kumar said.
“Our efforts will take time and it is my advice that the
faulty policies of the Union Ministry responsible for the
present mess can be controlled with proper care to food
security,” Kumar said.
Referring to Gujarat government’s decision making
elections mandatory for urban bodies, the Chief Minister said
”the Constitution had given the liberty to the states to
implement its own policies.”
“Nothing wrong has been done by way of taking this
decision,” he said.
“Even Bihar adopted novel way of providing 50 per cent
reservation to women in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI’s) and
urban bodies and other states are following it as a role
model,” he stated.
PTI
