Strengthen JD(U), Nitish Kumar tells party workers

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar visited the JD(U) state office here on Sunday evening after a long gap and heard the grievances of party workers.

The CM stayed at the party office for nearly three hours and met over 150 party workers who had arrived from different districts to meet him. He also held a meeting with old party colleagues of the Samata Party days who had arrived from Bhojpur.Besides meeting the general workers,

Nitish

also held discussions with senior party leaders on how to strengthen the organization in the state.

Interacting with reporters, Nitish said he visited the party office mainly to meet and hear the grievances of the party workers. “I had not been coming to the party office for the last many days. I was informed that many party workers wanted to meet me. I had given time of today to all those workers who wanted to meet me. I heard patiently all the workers who had arrived today. Everything is okay. There is no specific problem,” Nitish told reporters while coming out of the party office.

Asked about the leak of BPSC question paper, Nitish said he came to know about it while in the party office. “I just learned about the leak of the BPSC papers. I will make inquiries from the officers concerned,” he said.

Reacting to Nitish’s visit to the JD(U) office, party’s national president and Munger MP

Rajiv Ranjan

Singh alias Lalan Singh said, “The CM had arrived at the party office after a long gap. All those party workers who had long been seeking time to meet the CM, were called today. Some old party colleagues of the Samata Party days were also invited from Bhojpur district. The CM heard the grievances of all the workers one by one.”

“The CM gave order for speedy disposal of all the grievances of the party workers,” Sanjay Kumar Sinha, the office secretary of the state JD(U) said.

Other prominent JD(U) leaders who were present during the CM’s meeting with workers were party’s parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha, state president

Umesh Singh Kushwaha

, state ministers Ashok Choudhary and Sanjay Kumar Jha, party MLC Sanjay Kumar Singh alias Gandhi Ji and party’s national election officer Anil Hedge.