Go for a govt that works in tandem with Centre: Sushil Kumar Modi

PATNA: Former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi (SuMo) said on Saturday that in the Bihar assembly election slated for October-November 2015, people of the state would have an extraordinary opportunity to help install an NDA government in the state that would be in symmetry with the Narendra Modi-led NDA dispensation at the Centre.
He said this would boost developmental activities in the state, as the Centre under Narendra Modi would provide all assistance to Bihar for its growth.
Sushil Modi made this claim as a counterpoint to former CM Nitish Kumar who, during his ‘Sampark Yatra’ to various districts, unleashed vitriolic attacks on PM Narendra Modi for reneging on the promises he had made to the people of the state in his campaign speeches during the parliamentary elections this year – specially on special category status demand.
Holding Kumar responsible for the collapse of NDA rule (November 2005-June 2013) in the state, Sushil Modi said if the NDA rule had continued, today it would have been a win-win situation for Bihar, as with Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre, Bihar would have experienced accelerated growth like other BJP-ruled states – Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which, however, showed remarkable rise on growth chart when the UPA government was at the Centre.
Sushil Modi also said that for the last 24 years, Bihar has had governments that were not in sync with the dispensation at the Centre, resulting in its confrontation with the latter.
For the record, Bihar had Lalu-Rabri rule from 1990 to 2005, followed by the NDA rule under CM Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Sushil Modi from November 2005 to June 16, 2013, and then from June 2013 of the JD (U), first with Kumar as CM and then after the parliamentary elections this year, Jitan Ram Manjhi of his party as the CM.
The Centre, during the same period, had P V Narasimha Rao, H D Deve Gowda (1996-1998), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1998-2004), Manmohan Singh (2004-2014), and finally Narendra Modi from May this year, as the country’s PM. By and large, Lalu-Rabri dispensation was not in confrontation with Deve Gowda, and the Nitish-Sushil duo heading the NDA government, too, was not in confrontation with Singh.