'Nitish Kumar Making Bihar Sick': BJP State Chief Slams CM Amid AIIMS Darbhanga Row

“CM Nitish Kumar hasn't been able to do anything in 18 years. He doesn't want to allocate land for the airport, four lanes and AIIMS," alleged Bihar BJP President Samrat Choudhary.

Bihar BJP President Samrat Choudhary

Source : ANI

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday trained guns on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar amid a standoff between Bihar government and the BJP-led Centre over the land allocation from AIIMS Darbhanga. Calling CM Nitish Kumar “sick”, Bihar BJP President Samrat Choudhary said that Kumar is now making the state sick. "It's the bad luck of Bihar that its CM is sick, his party is sick and now CM Nitish Kumar is making Bihar sick,” he said, reported news agency ANI. “Instead of criminals, police officer is being killed,” he added. 

“CM Nitish Kumar hasn't been able to do anything in 18 years. He doesn't want to allocate land for the airport, four lanes and AIIMS,” Choudhary alleged further. 

A series of allegations and counter-allegations started between the Bihar government and the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a mention of the proposed All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Darbhanga in the list of premier health centres that were set up in all parts of the country. 

Calling Modi a “liar”, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav claimed that no such institute has opened in the district. 

He also claimed that it was CM Nitish Kumar who had taken an initiative for the AIIMS Darbhanga, “but the Centre threw a spanner by claiming the location of the land was not convenient.” 

Responding to Yadav’s allegation, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that the permission for the medical institute was granted by the Modi government in 2020 and the first land was given by Bihar government in 2021. "After this, you came to the government and changed this place on April 30, 2023 while doing politics," he further wrote in a series of posts.

Reacting to the entire episode of barb trade over AIIMS Darbhanga, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi said, "Bihar CM doesn't want that an AIIMS should be made in Darbhanga. The proposed land for the hospital wasn't found suitable by a team sent by the Centre."