PATNA: The Congress has vehemently criticised the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government for, what it alleged, using the government machinery to promote the interests of the alliance partners.
Citing an example, the state Congress chief spokesman Prem Chandra Mishra said on Friday that the chief minister's Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Akhileshwar Prasad Giri had sent a copy of the NDA's manifesto on good governance titled Sushashan ke karyakram to all the commissoner-cum-secretaries and divisional commissioners.
The booklet concerned had been provided to Giri, as he noted in the covering letter drafted on December 22 last year, by the chief minister's secretariat.
Terming it as it "unprecedented," Mishra said the covering letter also mentioned "cabinet secretariat and coordination department".
"It is unprecedented. Every party has its programme and manifesto. But no government in the past has circulated the manifesto of the ruling party or combination on any issue among top bureaucratic circles for reference or implementation", Mishra said, alleging that Giri, in effect, has been functioning as the "agent of BJP-JD(U)" and the government has resorted to politicisation of the state's bureaucratic machinery.
