Patna, Jun 21 (UNI) Dubbing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a "copycat" for imitating his promises regarding social security pension, the leader of opposition in Bihar assembly Tejaswi Prasad Yadav said that scared of the possible return of the Grand Alliance (GA) to power Nitesh government increased the social "security pension in tension".
Reiterating his commitment for increasing the social security pension from Rs 400 to Rs 1500 after coming to power which he claimed of promising on December 16, 2024 Yadav told news persons here on Saturday that Nitish who announced to increase the social security pension from Rs 400 to Rs 1100, was actually following him and alleged there was a copycat government in Bihar which is devoid of its own vision.
Tejaswi said that he had demanded from the Nitish government to make budgetary provision for the schemes announced by him but the CM ignored it. He alleged that now the Nitish government increased the
social security pension without making any prior provision for it in the budget.
He questioned from where the enhanced pension would be given to 1 crore 9 lakh 69 thousand 255 beneficiaries? An additional Rs 767 crore would be spent monthly for providing the increased pension.
Dubbing the Nitish government as "inefficient", Yadav reiterated that he had provided 5 lakh jobs in a short span of 17 months of his tenure and 3.5 lakh appointments were under process.
Taking pot shots at the Prime Minister's Bihar visit, Yadav alleged that over Rs 100 crore public money is spent on his every visit and added that in the last five elections, the Prime Minister has held more than 200 rallies and over Rs 20 thousand crore of hard-earned money of the people was spent by the government in the promotion of its party.
Yadav further said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has told a group of journalists of Bihar that Nitish was on the post only till the elections, because JDU's Bhunja party ( evening snacks) people were running the party. JDU's candidate will also be decided by Shah, he said alleging that JDU's national working president Sanjay Jha was already with BJP and RSS and would support the BJL in the mission.
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