PM Modi praises Nitish Kumar for good governance

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday endorsed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the face of NDA in Bihar ahead of the coming state elections, saying he "played a big role for a new India and a new Bihar,which was behind in terms of development for many years -- politics, cash crunch were some of the reasons."

Modi expressed confidence that the "good work of 15 years" will continue under the leadership of the JDu chief. In the last 15 years Bihar has shown that if the right government is elected in a state, benefits of government’s schemes can reach its people.He said, “We do not live in the age where one generation saw the inauguration of a project and another generation saw its completion. New India and new Bihar believes in fast-paced development.”Speaking of the return of the migrants to the state due to the lockdown, PM Modi said while it did pose some challenges, it also generated employment in Bihar.

PM Narendra Modi blamed the state's backwardness on a mindset which made them sneer the economic progress and thought lip-service was enough when it came to the betterment of the poor. "Bihar has for long been plagued by a peculiar mindset. Road projects were frowned upon and people used to ask what do these have to offer those who walk on foot and do not have vehicle.

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the three petroleum sector projects in Bihar which cost more than Rs 900 crores. The projects include the Durgapur-Banka section of the Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur Pipeline Augmentation Project and two Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Bottling Plants in Banka and Champaran.These two LPG plants will be able to fill gas cylinders for several districts not only from Bihar but also for Jharkhand and few districts of Uttar Pradesh as well.