Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar, on Saturday (October 4, 2025), while making a reference to the upcoming power plant at Pirpainti in election-bound Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, said that the “vote thief government is land thief too”, in a veiled dig at the BJP-led government at the Centre.
Congress accuses government of ‘gifting’ 1,050 acres of land in Bihar’s Bhagalpur to Gautam Adani
“For several days, there were talks of a land survey going on in Bihar, and people were doing rounds of local block offices, keeping their land papers in hand, but the real purpose of the government was to identify lands to be grabbed and hand them over to their friends. Why was over 1,000 acres of land in Bhagalpur given to Adani for the power project at the rate of ₹1 per acre?” asked the Congress leader while addressing media persons at the party headquarters in Sadaqat Ashram in Patna.
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He also mentioned that the power project was initiated by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, but later, it was virtually handed over to the Adani Group “under questionable terms”.
