Patna,(BiharTimes): Reacting to Amit Shah’s allegation Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the BJP chief should tell where in the state malls have been built on the land of sugar mills. He is either ignorant about the facts or is making wrong statements.

Talking to the media he asked Shah to release photographs related to any shopping mall being constructed anywhere in the state on the land of sugar mills. Nitish said 15 sugar mills and two distilleries in the state were closed and the government tried to make them functional. For this his government appointed SBI Caps as consultant in 2007 for this purpose. It evaluated the price, capabilities and potentialities of the sugar mills and submitted a report to the state government, on the basis of which tenders were invited four times.

According to him ‘bandobast’ (arrangement) for seven mills and a distillery was done in a completely transparent manner. Nitish denied that any minister or leader of his party have been given the land belonging to sugar mills nor any mall has been constructed on such land," he added. He said that Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has taken two sugar mills and a distillery in the state. One at Motipur has been given to a company India Potash Limited but a court case is going over it.