Bihar CM Nitish Kumar questions division of power between PM and Sonia

Questioning the division of power between the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the current UPA-II regime lacks integrity and goes against what the architects of the Indian Constitution envisaged. He also added that it was false to assume that the Congress Party had failed on several fronts due to alliance compulsions, whereas the fact was that were conflicts within the party itself. There is an issue of a consensus between the largest party itself, Nitish says. He furthur states that since the congress party has come into the power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government have been under severe criticism over alleged involvement in various corruption issues such as the telecom scam, the misappropriation of funds of Commonwealth Games funds, manipulation in the allotment of flats in the Adarsh Housing Society, besides many others. The most recent scam linked to the government is the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on a coal scam, which ha resulted in parliament not functioning during this past week. The BJP has held the Prime Minister, who then held direct charge of the coal ministry, responsible for what has been estimated as a notional loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crores by the CAG in coal block allocations, and demanded his resignation.