Nitish move raises doubts
Manoj Chaurasia PATNA, March 18: The Nitish Kumar government's move to recommend top bureaucrats for Lok Sabha poll nomination has ostensibly lent credence to the charge of politicisation of the state machinery. Senior bureaucrats, some of them even holding constitutional posts, and their wives have been recommended for nomination, a move which has raised doubts over the “fair” intention of the NDA government which is expected to be impartial during elections.According to reports, the JDU ~ a coalition partner in the NDA ~ has recommended to the Central Parliamentary Board the names of two top-ranking officials for the Nalanda seat. They include Mr RCP Sinha, principal secretary to the chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, and Mr Ashish Kumar Sinha, Home Guard’s director-general and former Bihar police chief. Nalanda, dominated by Kurmi community voters, is the home district of the chief minister and considered a prestigious seat. Of the two officials now waiting to switch over to politics, the present Home Guard DG, Mr Sinha, too hails from Nalanda and is reported to have been nursing his constituency for the past two years. Both of them are incidentally Kurmis. In the past 19 years, Nalanda has elected either Mr Kumar or only those men who enjoyed the blessings of this “Kurmi lord”. The constituency, it is said, has been dancing to the tune of Mr Kumar and always supported him, be it in grief or in happiness. It did not let Mr Kumar down even in the last 2004 poll although he lost in the Barh constituency.
Manoj Chaurasia PATNA, March 18: The Nitish Kumar government's move to recommend top bureaucrats for Lok Sabha poll nomination has ostensibly lent credence to the charge of politicisation of the state machinery. Senior bureaucrats, some of them even holding constitutional posts, and their wives have been recommended for nomination, a move which has raised doubts over the “fair” intention of the NDA government which is expected to be impartial during elections.According to reports, the JDU ~ a coalition partner in the NDA ~ has recommended to the Central Parliamentary Board the names of two top-ranking officials for the Nalanda seat. They include Mr RCP Sinha, principal secretary to the chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, and Mr Ashish Kumar Sinha, Home Guard’s director-general and former Bihar police chief. Nalanda, dominated by Kurmi community voters, is the home district of the chief minister and considered a prestigious seat. Of the two officials now waiting to switch over to politics, the present Home Guard DG, Mr Sinha, too hails from Nalanda and is reported to have been nursing his constituency for the past two years. Both of them are incidentally Kurmis. In the past 19 years, Nalanda has elected either Mr Kumar or only those men who enjoyed the blessings of this “Kurmi lord”. The constituency, it is said, has been dancing to the tune of Mr Kumar and always supported him, be it in grief or in happiness. It did not let Mr Kumar down even in the last 2004 poll although he lost in the Barh constituency.
Courtsey : The Statesman
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