Bihar Elections 2020: Nitish Kumar Hits Back At Tejashwi Yadav's Promise Of 10 Lakh Jobs To People

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar targeted opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav for claiming to provide 10 lakh jobs to the residents if elected to power.

Bihar Elections 2020:  Addressing a rally in Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar slammed opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav for promising 10 lakh jobs if elected to power. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said those who could not even hold a cabinet meeting in their time are today talking about sitting for a cabinet meeting to provide government jobs to everyone. Also Read|Pakistan, China 'Creating Border Dispute Under A Mission’: Rajnath Singh After Inaugurating 44 Bridges Addressing an e-rally on Monday, Kumar, who is also the president of the ruling Janata Dal (United), said, "What is it that they say? 'We will hold a cabinet meeting and approve 10 lakh jobs'. In their time, they could not even hold a cabinet meeting, let alone the question of getting any work done." He wondered whether any government in the world could generate limitless employment for its people.

"One should be wary of false claims. There are people who are trying to sell you sandcastles. Beware of them," Kumar said. “These people,” the JD(U) chief said, "should tell us how many jobs they created in the 15 years they had. And we'll tell them how many people we have provided employment to." Referring to Yadav, he further said “these people” have neither the experience nor the will to work. "For me, the entire Bihar is my family. But for some, their family is paramount. Husband, wife, son, that is all some people can think of," Nitish said, in a veiled attack on jailed RJD chief Lalu Yadav’s family. He also repeated his 'Pati Patni Raj' jibe that he has been making in every political campaign speech he has made over the past one month. RJD's Tejashwi Yadav has been declared as the chief ministerial candidate of the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar as it announced a seat-sharing formula on Saturday for the upcoming Assembly polls under which his party will contest 144 of a total 243 seats. Kumar said that the younger people, who did not know about the 15 years of Yadav family 'misrule', needed to be reminded about the sea change that he had brought about in Bihar over the past one-and-a-half decades. "I will speak to the youngsters about it every day. It is my duty to create a suitable space for the development of youngsters. We are trying to ensure that the situation is created so that no person from Bihar has to go outside looking for work," the chief minister said.