PM Modi likely to announce sops for Bihar today
This will be Modi's third election rally in Bihar. Before thathe will inaugurate development projects in Arrah.
According to media reports, BJP state leaders have hinted that the Prim e Minister could today announce the more than Rs. 50,000 crore in Central funds that he has promised Bihar.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the BJP's main rival in the Bihar elections, said he would wait for details before commenting.
"I am waiting to see whether the special package will have new projects or merely a repackaging of the old ones," Kumar said.
Going by the normal protocol, Nitish Kumar will receive the PM at the Patna airport, though he will not not accompany him on his official programme in Ara.
The Chief Minister also said, "First of all, it's a clear-cut violation of cooperative federalism that the state government has been kept in the dark, while BJP leaders are making statements about the PM's special package for the state. But, whatever I have heard so far, there seems nothing new in the proposed special package."
In the Bihar elections, the BJP takes on a coalition of Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (U), Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress and other smaller parties.
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