07-24-2008, 11:12 PM
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UPA manipulated: Nitish</b>
Patna (PTI): Assailing the UPA for winning the confidence vote by virtue of "manipulations and poaching", Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the government would not not have survived, had it not not taken to "unfair and illegal means".
"Entire country and world know how the UPA government survived. It survived on manipulations, poaching, unfair and illegal means. People will teach the UPA a lesson in the next Lok Sabha elections", Kumar told reporters at his assembly chamber here.
The Chief Minister alleged that on day one he was apprehensive of the UPA government indulging in horsetrading of MPs and described the UPA as "United Poachers' Association". "Had the NDA members not not been poached, the government would have fallen," he said.
"It is amply clear that the UPA government has lost people's confidence and it will be voted out", Kumar added.
On the nuclear deal, Kumar said the NDA was "dead opposed" to it.
He resented the Centre's decision prohibiting the state government from entertaining any proposals for ethanol-based bio fuel.
"On one hand the Centre is going ahead with its unilateral campaign for the nuclear deal for production of energy but it is prohibiting power-starved Bihar from
implementing projects to produce ethanol-based bio-fuel", he said
UPA manipulated: Nitish</b>
Patna (PTI): Assailing the UPA for winning the confidence vote by virtue of "manipulations and poaching", Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the government would not not have survived, had it not not taken to "unfair and illegal means".
"Entire country and world know how the UPA government survived. It survived on manipulations, poaching, unfair and illegal means. People will teach the UPA a lesson in the next Lok Sabha elections", Kumar told reporters at his assembly chamber here.
The Chief Minister alleged that on day one he was apprehensive of the UPA government indulging in horsetrading of MPs and described the UPA as "United Poachers' Association". "Had the NDA members not not been poached, the government would have fallen," he said.
"It is amply clear that the UPA government has lost people's confidence and it will be voted out", Kumar added.
On the nuclear deal, Kumar said the NDA was "dead opposed" to it.
He resented the Centre's decision prohibiting the state government from entertaining any proposals for ethanol-based bio fuel.
"On one hand the Centre is going ahead with its unilateral campaign for the nuclear deal for production of energy but it is prohibiting power-starved Bihar from
implementing projects to produce ethanol-based bio-fuel", he said