Devil’s Advocate and Nitish Kumar
Posted : May 30, 2006 at 12:33 pm [IST]
I missed last Sunday’s ‘Devil’s Advocate’ of Karan Thapar grilling Nitish Kumar. However, the website of “>CNN-IBN provided the transcript. What I found and concluded was that it was a poor show- more so because of poorer framing of questions by Karan Thapar that he put to Nitish Kumar.
As his case of improved law and order situations after his takeover of the reign of Bihar, Nitish Kumar talked of two big conferences held at Patna recently. But it doesn’t reflect on the state’s patented abduction processes (services) that the dons of Bihar have mastered. They are not terrorists from outside the country who take credit of terrorizing the participants of intellectuals’ meet. They are in abduction business or service. They make prey of those, whose parents can pay; or whosoever wished to have that abduction carried out to embarrass the parents, can pay.
Karan Thapar grilled Nitish about the role of a particular caste. That was in bad taste. Karan behaved like casteist Arjun Singh. Karan would have asked Nitish why he couldn’t appeal to the founders and well-wishers of Ranvir Sena to wind up the organization, as they, as good citizens, must have faith in the ability of the state to maintain law and order.
Further, Karan couldn’t get commitment of Nitish on various development projects such as rural connectivity through roads, GQ and East-West Corridor Expressways and the rural electrification necessary to pull up the poor. I wish Nitish Kumar could be pushed to enumerate some five-ten projects that can change the face of Bihar and commit on some dates of completion.
One thing is true. Many think Nitish as a last hope for Bihar. I wish he could appreciate that he is to be bold enough and fast enough to remove the perception of poor law and order and highly inefficient bureaucracy of Bihar. As I keep on saying for many things, he must be ruthless.
- Indra
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