Law Kumar Mishra
Patna,; A day after the working president of JDU and Rajya Sabha member,Sanjay Kumar Jha demanded special category status to Bihar,the Union government on Monday rejected the demand
The union minister of state for finance,Pankaj Chaudhury informed the Lok Sabha during question hour,the case of special status to Bihar is not made out.
Replying to Ramprit Mandal of JDU,Chaudhury said in 2012, the inter ministerial group had also turned down the demand.He said Bihar was neither a hilly area nor a border state.
Sanjay Jha on Sunday at the all party meeting chaired by the Defence Minister,Rajnath Singh had demanded special status to Bihar.
Both the Houses of Bihar legislature had passed a resolution seeking special status to the state.JDU had launched a mass signature campaign too to press the demand and a memorandum was submitted to the President by leaders of all parties.
JDU , a partner in the NDA ministry had made special status ,an election issue.
Chief minister,Nitish Kumar while presiding over a meeting of the NDA legislature party on the first day of Monsoon session of the state legislature,however said BJP and JDU would contest the 2025 assembly elections together and would win 225 out of 243 seats.