Wooing Bihar & Orissa, irking all the rest

With Nitish Kumar ending a 17-year-old alliance with the BJP, and the UPA assiduously wooing him for months with all manner of goodies, the last being a Rs 12,000 crore grant from the Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF), election season is formally upon us. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has also formally declared his willingness to be wooed by talking of how the state is discriminated against in terms of money from the Centre. And to make public its intent to woo, the government has set up a panel...

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