{"id":1372,"date":"2015-12-08T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2015-12-28T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:41:35","slug":"modi-is-vanquished-long-live-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/modi-is-vanquished-long-live-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi is vanquished, long live Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bihar\u2019s people might have been unimpressed by his electoral campaign blitz, but the state\u2019s new lawmakers are still nursing a Narendra Modi hangover.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The first debate in the 16th Bihar Assembly on Monday\u00a0turned out to be more of an assessment of the Prime Minister \u2013 with the BJP members extolling his \u201cvirtues\u201d and the Grand Alliance leaders interpreting the\u00a0state mandate as a message for him to\u00a0\u201ckeep shut\u201d and work for the countrymen \u2013 than a meaningful conversation on taking Bihar forward.<\/div>\n
\u00a0The House was scheduled to debate the governor\u2019s address on the policy priorities of the Nitish Kumar government, and the members could have raised issues concerning their constituencies. The only one to do that was the solitary RLSP member, Lallan Paswan, who vigorously flagged the acute drinking water crisis in his Chenari Assembly constituency.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u201cWomen have to travel miles at Chenari, Soli, Chanodih, Daranagar and Rasulpur villages, pitchers on their head, to draw water for drinking from polluted water bodies,\u201d he said, requesting the Speaker to constitute a House committee to probe the problem and make suitable recommendations to the government. \u201cThe government is bragging about the growing rate of its GSDP (gross state domestic product). It sounds ridiculous in a state which still has thousands of women travelling miles in the hills and rugged terrains of Chenari in the Kaimur region for water.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u00a0Others chose to analyse the Prime\u00a0Minister\u2019s conduct, and the message of the Bihar polls.<\/div>\n
\u00a0The new Leader of the Opposition, the BJP\u2019s Prem Kumar, praised the \u201cbenevolent\u201d Prime Minister for the special package of<\/div>\n
\u00a0Rs 1.25 lakh crore to Bihar. The PM had given \u201ctop priority\u201d to the construction and upkeep of the national highways, Prem<\/div>\n
\u00a0Kumar said, and had opened opportunities for the youth through the \u201cskill development\u201d scheme.<\/div>\n
\u00a0Though he did manage to kick up a storm, many observers felt Prem Kumar\u2019s address lacked the wit and spark of his predecessor, Nand Kishore Yadav, who was seen sitting silently.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bihar\u2019s people might have been unimpressed by his electoral campaign blitz, but the state\u2019s new lawmakers are still nursing a Narendra Modi hangover. \u00a0The first debate in the 16th Bihar Assembly on Monday\u00a0turned out to be more of an assessment of the Prime Minister \u2013 with the BJP members extolling his \u201cvirtues\u201d and the Grand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}