NDA govt failed to check migration of workers from Bihar: Tejashwi Patna

He alleged that in the past 21 years of NDA rule, Bihar has seen negligible progress in industrial production but has remained a major supplier of labour.

Patna: Senior RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday alleged that the NDA government has failed to check migration of workers, and sarcastically remarked that the BJP, which is “adept in changing names of entities”, should rename Bihar as ‘Labour State.’

Extending greetings to labourers on International Labour Day, Yadav highlighted their “unparalleled contributions to nation-building” but lamented the absence of “positive discussion” on their uplift.

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“The BJP is an expert in changing names. Bihar’s newly nominated chief minister should rename ‘International Labour Day’ to ‘Bihar-Dedicated Day’ and change the state’s name to ‘Labour State’, Yadav wrote in his X post.

He alleged that in the past 21 years of NDA rule, Bihar has seen negligible progress in industrial production but has remained a major supplier of labour.

Yadav claimed that over the last two decades, nearly four crore people from the state have migrated to other parts of the country in search of work.

Alleging inaction by the state government, he said, “If Bihar’s workers, compelled by necessity, do not go to other states, how will factories in Gujarat and Maharashtra run?”

He alleged that Biharis face “bullets and insults” in other states, and pinned the blame on the NDA government for “sufferings inflicted on the people of the state.” “Talking of a developed India without the progress of workers, their families, villages, and the state is sheer dishonesty.

The direct impact of the double-engine government’s capitalist policies has fallen squarely on labourers and workers,” the leader of the opposition in the state assembly said.