NDA Stages Protest Against UPA Government
Patna: April 9, 2007
 NDA leaders in Bihar on Monday held a statewide protest against the UPA government's 'step-motherly' attitude towards the state government and for trying to shift the blame of irregularities in the Below Poverty List to the Nitish government.
Janata Dal (U) state president Lallan Singh said that despite the fact that the BPL list was prepared under the previous Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) regime, the opposition parties are misleading the people of Bihar by blaming the Nitish government for irregularities in the list.
"Until the central government ordered inclusion of nearly one crore people of Bihar in the BPL list, the NDA's fight against it would continue," Singh said adding the entire brouhaha over the BPL list in Bihar was 'sponsored' by none other than the RJD president and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who wanted a continuation of anarchy that was the hallmark of his government.
 Meanwhile, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders staged a dharna at the Kargil Chowk in Patna accusing the UPA government of becoming autocratic 'that was trying to wipe off BJP as a party' by making false and criminal cases against its leaders.
"The CD scandal in Uttar Pradesh has been created by the UPA constituents to completely destroy the BJP because they are worried to death about its rising popularity," BJP spokesperson Kiran Ghai said adding if any of the BJP leader was arrested in Uttar Pradesh, the UPA government will be paying a very heavy price.
"Lalu Prasad Yadav destroyed the Bihar for generations to come and now that the NDA government is trying hard to extricate the state from its pitiful conditions, the same Lalu Prasad Yadav, using his political clout at the Center is still busy destroying Bihar," Ghai said.
Protestors then marched from Kargil Chowk to J. P. Roundabout on the opposite side of the Gandhi Maidan where they chanted anti-Sonia, anti-Lalu, and anti-Mulayam Singh Yadav slogans.
Besides Singh and Ghai, other leaders who participated in Monday's protest included Anjali Sinha, Arun Kumar Sinha, Lallan Paswan, Ganga Prasad, Nitin Naveen, Sanjay Mayukh, Suraj Nandan Mehta, and many others.
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