Leader of opposition in Bihar Abdul Bari Siddiqui today suggested Anna Hazare and his aides to launch a movement against corruption from the state.
"I request Annaji to visit Bihar and if he finds the Nitish Kumar government neck-deep in corruption, he should launch a movement against corruption from the state," Siddiqui said in a letter to the Gandhian activist.
Rampant corruption prevails in several welfare programmes in Bihar, he alleged. Siddiqui referred to the recent controversy over the allotment of plots by Bihar Industrial Area Authority to bureaucrats, relatives of ministers, besides MPs and MLAs, and the issue related to non-reconciliation of AC/DC bills highlighted by the CAG in its report or the period which ended on March 31, 2010.
"The country is fed up with rampant corruption ... We know that you have nothing to do with political parties ... We see a reflection of late Jayaprakash Narayan in your image," the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader said.
"I had sent an invitation letter along with documents related to land scam to financial irregularities of crores of rupees as revealed by the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report to Hazare to visit Bihar, and to personally study the ground reality before making any statement in favour of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar." Siddiqui told rediff.com.
Hazare had praised Kumar in April. "The work done by chief ministers of Bihar (Kumar) and Gujarat (Narendra Modi) should be done by chief ministers of all states" Haare had said.