After 84 Days Of Social Distancing Amid COVID-19, Nitish Kumar Steps Out

Patna:

Among his friends, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has in all probability confronted essentially the most criticism for lacking in motion amid the coronavirus disaster no less than relating to optics. Mr Kumar has drawn political assaults not solely as a result of he averted any media interplay in the course of the previous few months but additionally as a result of he by no means stepped out of the his authorities bungalow on 1, Anne Marg in Patna since March 16.

Under fixed fireplace from the opposition and a realisation that the extra he stays aloof, the extra he invitations criticism forward of the high-stakes state election later this 12 months, the Janata Dal United chief lastly stepped out of his bungalow and drove simply 20 meters to the official secretariat “Samvad”, which is subsequent to his residence, on Tuesday.

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But it was not earlier than Leader of the Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, tweeted earlier within the day mocking him.

“Respected Chief Minister, in this crisis, you have not been out of your house for the last 84 days to review the healthcare system, the condition of the poor and labourers nor to encourage the people of the state. You are the only Chief Minister of the country to do so. If you are afraid, I will go along with you. But please at least come out,” he wrote in Hindi.

“People of the country are saying that the Chief Minister of Bihar is scared. You misuse government machinery and resources and spend hours every day video-conferencing with your leaders, but you have not asked about the general public. Everyone knows the state of your quarantine centres. Wake up now at least,” Mr Yadav wrote in a second tweet.

However, a number of Janata Dal United leaders and senior ministers like Sushil Modi got here out in Mr Kumar’s help.

“Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister-face of NDA (National Democratic Alliance) in Bihar, has been serving the public for the last 15 years and is engaged in protecting the 12 crore people from every crisis, from floods to coronavirus. Lalu Yadav, who is convicted in the fodder scam and has been in jail for 1,095 days – how is his political heir, who himself vanished for 33 days after the Lok Sabha elections, was outside the state for 50 days while it went into lockdown, asking for an account from the Chief Minister? Should the Chief Minister have violated the lockdown to pretend to be a messiah? The days of making politics an arena of drama are over,” Mr Modi wrote in Hindi.

But Janata Dal United leaders concede that regardless of working round the clock and monitoring the state of affairs on an hourly foundation, Nitish Kumar’s picture has taken a beating amid the COVID-19 disaster.

“Especially if you compare with Chief Ministers of neighbouring states like Yogi Adityanath (of Uttar Pradesh) and a rookie Hemant Shoren (of Jharkhand) as both led from the front,” one chief stated.

“Perhaps we failed to realise the importance of communications and the over-confidence of Nitish Kumar really boomeranged like his decision to not to pay for trains to Bihar and stop the special trains in March,” he added, requesting to not be named.