The
Congress party took a jibe at the Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) which has promised in its election manifesto 19 lakh jobs for Bihar and a two-fold rise in the state’s GDP over the
next five years.  

“Instead of coming out with yet another jumla (gimmick) of 19 lakh jobs, the BJP would have done better by stating what happened to the promise of 2 crore jobs a year made by Modi before the 2014 general elections,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Thursday. 

Taking a dig at the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who released the BJP’s
manifesto for the Bihar Assembly elections, Surjewala said, “What do we do with
the claims about GDP, made by a woman under whom the country’s growth rate has
nosedived from 10% to minus 23%.”

Surjewala also went on to attack the Narendra Modi-Nitish Kumar alliance at a press conference by playing
video clips of the PM and the Bihar CM, shooting
ferocious remarks on each other.

The
JDU chief, running for his fourth consecutive term in power, had won 2015
assembly elections as the Chief Ministerial candidate with Congress-RJD-JDU
grand alliance.

“The
BJP manifesto is full of gimmicks and comes nowhere close to ours. Instead of
coming out with yet another jumla (gimmick) of 19 lakh jobs, the BJP
would have done better by stating what happened to the promise of 2 crore jobs
a year made by Modi before the 2014 general elections,” said Surjewala

He further
added, “Had they been able to deliver on their promises, 12 crore people
would have got employment across the country in the last six years and their
failure is a proof of why they can’t be trusted anymore.”

 The Congress leader also alleged that the
JD(U)-BJP duo has taken the state to the “brink of ruin” (“badhaali
ke kaggar par”) in the last 15 years and said Kumar, who
is called “sushasan babu” for his claims of ushering in
good governance deserved to be called “phisaddi babu“
(laggard).

“It’s not just us to call Nitish Kumar a non-performer but the recent Niti Aayog
report, which functions under the Modi government at the Centre says so,” said the Congress leader

Surjewala
also expressed his disappointment with Kumar for losing his calm at a
rally on Wednesday where he “asked young protesters to get out”.

Surjewala was referring to a rally in Bihar’s Parsa where slogans were
raised against JD(U) by supporters of Chhote Lal Rai, who had left JD(U) over
Chandrika Roy’s induction and is now in the fray as the RJD candidate.

 Assembly
elections in Bihar are scheduled to be held in the last week of October and first week
of November.