Bureaucrats should change their mindset: JD(U)

Kishanganj, Apr 22 (UNI) State JD (U) Chief Rajiv Ranjan alias Lallan Singh today said bureaucrats in the state should either change their present mindset or seek voluntary retirement from service before the government clamped down on them.

Addressing a press conference here, the state JD (U) President claimed qualitative and wide-ranging changes in the realm of law and order, education, health and road development and said the government would deal very sternly with all such people who indulged in corrupt practices and misappropriation of funds.

Lallan Singh, in reply to a query, called for the screening of newly-appointed school teachers, in the wake of reports that inefficient teachers had managed to sneak in. He blamed downgrading standard in education on the 15-year RJD misrule in the state.

''How could you expect better qualified and competent teachers from such a system,'' he demanded.

State Ministers Biswa Mohan Thakur, Manzar Alam and state JD (U) general secretaries Yogesh Kushwaha and Anil Pathak were also present on the occasion.

Apropos of the human trafficking cases involving the honourable MPs, the JD (U) leader said, ''It is most shocking and a shameless affair.'' Replying to a question relating to the controversial CDs in UP elections, the JD (U) leader said that though his party was an NDA partner, there was no question of any compromise on secularism, and added his party was committed to safeguard the minorities at all cost.

In the context of Bihar, he observed that the BJP never transgressed secular credentials, and stood by the Chief Minister for the upliftment of the state from its state of poverty.

UNI