Patna, July 19: Bihar’s main opposition RJD today slammed the state’s NDA government for ‘failing’ to make available adequate fertilisers, diesel, kerosene and seeds to farmers as the state experienced ‘scanty’ rains this monsoon and called for declaring the whole state ‘drought-hit’.
Hundreds of RJD activists, led by former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, state party chief Abdul Bari Siddiqui and deputy leader in the state Assembly Shakeel Ahmed Khan, held demonstration here in protest against alleged apathy of the Nitish Kumar government towards the plight of farmers.
“The farmers in Bihar are at the brinks of starvation due to the state experiencing the poorest rainfalls this rainy season,” RJD MP Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said, alleging that the state government had failed to rise upto expectations in providing relief to them.
–PTI