INDIA bloc to hold country-wide programmes on Gandhi Jayanti, says Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the opposition coalition INDIA will be holding country-wide programmes on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. Without revealing details of the proposed programmes, the leader of the JD(U), a constituent of INDIA, said that a decision in this regard was taken at the just concluded conclave of the opposition alliance in Mumbai.
Kumar claimed that the BJP-led NDA was rattled by the «unity of the opposition» and, therefore, the central government has convened later this month a special session of Parliament, the agenda for which has not been revealed.
«We have taken a resolution that the INDIA alliance will celebrate Gandhi Jayanti across the country.
»The INDIA alliance has rattled the ruling BJP which has forced the Central government to explore the possibility of holding assembly and national elections simultaneously.
The move betrays panic in the BJP after they saw the unity of opposition parties under the INDIA coalition," Kumar told reporters here.
The chief minister, who returned from Mumbai after attending the INDIA conclave last night, asked why the Central government was not talking about the delay in the decadal census.
«It has not begun the census so far which. But, as per norms, it should have been completed long back.
