Bihar will gain nothing from Raghuram report: Sushil Modi

September 26, 2013 18:03

Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today expressed disappointment with the Raghuram Rajan panel report which bracketed Bihar among backward states and said it will get nothing for it.

"The Raghuram Rajan panel report is like 'Khoda Pahar nikli chuhiya (making a mountain out of a mole hill) ... Bihar will gain nothing out of it," he said in a tweet and assailed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for creating a hype that the Centre had acceded to his request to set it up to clear the decks for grant of special status to the state.

The former deputy chief minister in another tweet flayed the Raghuram Rajan panel for negating the concept of special category status by categorising the states as developed, less developed and least developed on the basis of multi-dimensional index.

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