Lalu kept Bihar backward to ensure people have little expectations from govt: Piyush Goyal
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Dated:- 11-9-2025
PTI
Patna, Sep 11 (PTI) Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday launched a frontal attack on RJD president Lalu Prasad, alleging that while he ruled Bihar, he deliberately kept the state backward to ensure that people had little expectations from the government.
Addressing a function in the state capital, Goyal showered praises on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, PrasadÂ’s arch-rival and president of BJP ally JD(U), claiming that the backwardness came to an end after he assumed charge.
“Lalu Prasad and his family's thinking was to keep Bihar backward. He deliberately kept the state backward to ensure that people had litt
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in the state in 2015 when Kumar became the CM, and the number rose to 4,000 now.
“Today, Bihar's fox nuts are going to New Zealand, the USA, and Canada. I believe that in the coming days, it will go to more than 100 countries”, he said.
Later, he also inaugurated PatnaÂ’s office of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).
“The agriculture sector in the country has received a new direction. With the establishment of the APEDA office in the state, local produce such as mangoes, Shahi litchi, makhana, rice, bananas, and pulses will now be able to gain global recognition. Agriculture-rich Bihar will now become the backbone of a self-reliant and developed India”, he said.
The union minister also anno
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, “Be it railways, roadways, industrial growth or a plethora of welfare schemes, the NDA government has kept its promises both at the Centre and state. We are confident that the NDA will again form the government in the state with a thumping majority,” he added.
Goyal said the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved two major infrastructure projects: a Rs 3,169-crore railway line and a Rs 4,447-crore highway for Bihar.
The doubling of the 177-km Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat railway line and the construction of the 82-km four-lane Mokama-Munger section of the Buxar-Bhagalpur high-speed corridor will ease transport woes in the state, he added.
Goyal also referred to the metro project under development, which he said would transform urban mobilit
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