Irrigation to all agricultural land: Nitish’s first poll promise to Bihar voters

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a virtual meeting with Janata Dal (United) workers from Kaimur and Rohtas districts on Thursday (June 11) told them that the party’s chief promise to voters ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, will be to provide irrigation facilities to all agricultural land in the state.

The state is slated to have Assembly polls in October-November.

Even as BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently conducted a virtual rally in the poll-bound state, the JD(U) has been following suit with Kumar having addressed more than 5,000 workers from each district since Sunday, reports said.

Kumar’s sop for the agricultural community holds significance with more than 80 per cent of the people in Bihar being dependent on agriculture.

Taking a dig at the previous RJD government helmed by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, Kumar said the culture of “crime, abduction and murder” will not continue in the state and the party will win on the basis of his infrastructural work and liquor ban.

The chief minister also told party workers that the Bihar government will come up with an industrial policy to provide employment to migrants, a formal announcement on which will be made within three to four days.