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Bihar: PK to kick off his movement from Nitish's native village Kalyanbigha

Nalanda, Apr 27 (UNI) Founder of Jan Suraj, Prashant Kishor, popular as PK, announced on Sunday that he would kickstart his mass movement of signature campaign on May 11 on various issues from the native village of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar Kalyanbigha in Nalanda district.
PK told news persons here that the signature campaign beginning on May 11 would focus on three major points including whether the announcement of Nitish government to provide Rs 2 lakh to each 94 lakh poor people got the money or the announcement remained only a jumala?
The focus will also be on whether the Mahadalits who played a pivotal role for keeping Kumar in power for 18-20 years have got the land or not and if Kalyanbigha remained untouched by the money collection going on in the name of land survey all over Bihar?
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