Protests against Water-logging in Patna
Patna: June 19, 2008
 Several political outfits in Patna on Thursday protested against the Nitish administration blaming it for failing to control water-logging in the state capital despite its repeated promises of ridding the city of such quandary each year after the monsoon season.
At the Income Tax roundabout, the students' wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) torched the effigy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar accusing him of ignoring the plight of the ordinary people "while his ministers continue to roam around in luxury vehicles never taking time to see the ground reality".
Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders also took out a rally from Kankarbagh to the Kargil Chowk where they burnt the effigy of the Chief Minister on the same issue.
 The march was led by party leader Khurshid Alam Siddiqui who said never before Patna had been so much messy while the Chief Minister and his cohorts continue to make false claims that there was no water-logging anywhere in the city.
"The government has spent crores of rupees in the pretext of resolving the water-logging problem in Patna. The situation, however, instead of getting better, has gone from bad to worse and people here would like to know where all the money went," Siddiqui said.
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