Bihar's per capita income would've more than doubled without 'Jungle Raj': Nirmala

The per capita income of the people of Bihar would have more than doubled had there been no misgovernance during the Lalu Yadav-led RJD government, Union finance minister and senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday, as she addresses a press conference in Patna during the Lok Sabha poll campaign.

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Comparing Bihar with Odisha, another eastern Indian state considered economically weak, she said that the per capita income of Bihar (Rs 21,282) was higher than Odisha (Rs 20,591) in 1991.

During the next decade, Odisha’s per capita income, she asserted, jumped by 31 per cent but for that Bihar’s dropped by 32-33 per cent to Rs 14,209 through 2002.

Post 2002, Bihar’s per capita grew, though at a steady rate of 5 per cent on average every year to Rs 37,000 by 2019.