RJD Leaders Ridicule Poll Favorable to Nitish
Patna: June 22, 2008
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders Shyam Rajak and Nihora Prasad Yadav, at a press conference in Patna on Sunday, pooh-poohed the result of a poll that indicated developments were taking place in Bihar and the popularity of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was growing each day.
Taking strong exceptions to a recent poll conducted jointly by the HT Media and C4 India, the RJD leaders said that the poll was conducted with the sole intention to make the Chief Minister look good since the ground reality spoke a different story about development in the state and the popularity of Nitish Kumar.
"It is laughable that in a land of 9 crore people, some media company polls 1,129 people whose response, apparently skewed in favor of the ruling government, we are expected to believe," Rajak said.
Yadav said that the state government had failed to implement various schemes including rectifying and publishing the Below Poverty List (BPL), pension, mid-day meal, free books, uniforms, and bicycles to school students.
"Reporters are being beaten up and patients are assaulted by the doctors; roads have turned into giant sink holes, there is hardly any electricity supply in the state capital, agricultural productivity has gone down, and people are still struggling to get drinking water in their areas. Not surprisingly, polls are being designed to hide the NDA government's failure while making the Chief Minister look good in the media," the RJD leaders said.
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