Patna,(BiharTimes): Call it irony or any other thing. A day after chief minister Nitish Kumar was laying the foundation stone for installation of a statue of former chief minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha on August 6 the state government tabled the N N Singh Commission report on Bhagalpur riots of 1989, wich among other things indict the Congress government of this late leader.
Critics say the Nitish government, perhaps deliberately tabled the report on the last day of the last session of this Assembly. So there is hardly any scope to debate the report.
In fact many political observers are of the view that there was hardly any scope for constituting this Commission of Inquiry way back in 2006.
Questioning the very timing and utility of tabling the report on the last day of the concluding Monsoon Session CPI ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said it would have been better for the state government to implement the recommendations made by the three-member committee constituted during the tenure of chief minister Lalu Prasad. That report was tabled in 1995.
Socio-political analyst Soroor Ahmed said: “When it was constituted in 2006 the main objective of the Nitish government was to show that RJD chief Lalu Prasad had done nothing during his tenure as the CM. The truth is that there was enough scope for Nitish Kumar government to implement the recommendations of the previous report set up during the Lalu era.” 
According to him some steps were taken after N N Singh Commission submitted its interim report some years back. But now after the final report little is possible as the election is round the corner.
“More than that now Nitish is not in position to make political capital out of it. Even if he comes to power he will have to rely on the same Congress, whose government has been indicted by the Singh report and the earlier report too. Apart from this, today Lalu Prasad has become an ally, rather than a rival,” Soroor Ahmed said.
So there is no dearth of people who are of the view that crores of rupees were wasted in the last nine years to befool Muslims. Unlike in 2006 Nitish did not need to woo the community away from RJD and attract them as Muslims appear to be inclined towards JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance.
Said social activist Naiyer Fatmi: “No doubt Lalu did not properly implement the recommendations of the earlier three-member report. His government did try to save some of those involved. But both Lalu and Nitish were close friends in early 1990s. Yet the Lalu government did something, which has not been done after previous communal riots. It would have been better had this latest report come much earlier and fulfilled the rest of the demands of the victims,” Fatmi told BiharTimes.
Said Parwez Ahmed of Banka district (then the worst affected sub-division of Bhagalpur district): “Even if Nitish returns to power he would not be in a hurry to implement recommendations of Singh Commission report as there is no other election round the corner. Politicians act only when elections are close.”
Anyway the latest report has given an opportunity to BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi to tease Nitish Kumar by asking whether he is ready to snap ties with Congress and RJD.