A day after the Bihar Cabinet passed a proposal seeking special category status for the State, Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RLD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday asked the Central government to clarify its stand on the issue in the public domain.
“Bihar Chief Minister [Nitish Kumar] has demanded special category status for the State from the Central government several times but Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] has not been listening. If you [Modi-led government at the Centre] don’t want to give special status to Bihar, clarify your stand on the issue in public domain and then we will look into it and work in our own way for the development of Bihar,” said Mr. Yadav while speaking to media persons in Patna.
He further said: “Our government has done historic work like conducting the caste survey successfully in Bihar and hope that the caste census would be done in the country as well”.
