When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resumed blogging after a gap of 11 months, it was his sheer satisfaction from the fulfilment of a major election promise that brought him back to the blogosphere. His latest blog waxes eloquent on his government’s recent achievements in the campaigns against corruption.
Mr Kumar, an influential satrap known to devote over three-fourths of his daily waking hours to governance issues and the rest to politics, was self-confessedly enthused by his government’s opening of a primary school for dalit children last week in the confiscated house of suspended IAS officer Shiv Shankar Verma, who is facing corruption charges.
“I was just waiting for a worthwhile moment to connect with you online. Now, that time has come,” writes Mr Kumar in his 1,506-word piece that went online on www.nitishspeaks.blogspot.com [1] on Tuesday. He congratulates the JD(U)-BJP coalition government he heads in Bihar for demonstrating “something that I had been rather passionate about all the while”.
This is the first blog Mr Kumar wrote after winning a massive re-election with a three-fourths majority in November 2010 and then, in recent months, witnessing his party JD(U)’s strength growing in the Bihar legislature through defections from rival parties. Mr Kumar’s love affair with the blogosphere began in April 2010.
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[1] http://www.nitishspeaks.blogspot.com