Patna, (Bihar Times): An all-party delegation under the leadership of the chief minister Nitish Kumar will soon meet the Union power and agriculture ministers to demand more electricity for the state from the central pool and and to get anomalies in the public distribution system removed.

This decision was taken at the all-party meeting held in Patna on Tuesday to discuss the issue of chronic power crisis and collapse of the public distribution system in the state. While Abdul Bari Siddiqui represented the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Sadanand Singh, was present on the behalf of the Cognress Party. State power minister, Vijendra Yadav, was also present on the occasion. Chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere.

Meanwhile, former minister of state for electricity, Shyam Rajak, once again held the then Vajpayee government, in which Nitish Kumar was the railway minister, responsible for reducing Bihar’s quota from the central pool. “Everything is available in black and white. They did so to create problem for the Rabri Devi government in Bihar. Now they are themselves facing the music,” he told newsmen on Tuesday.

Rajak rebutted the Bihar State Electricity Board chairman, Swapan Mukherjee’s statement that the state was getting around 700 MW of power when it should get 1,150 MW. He said that the then NDA government reduced Bihar’s quota to 250-300 MW and it is the Manmohan Singh government which had increased it to 650-700 MW. So there is no point blaming the present central government for the virtual black-out in the state.