RANCHI, Dec. 11 -- Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government, saying the latter deliberately chooses unnecessary subjects for discussion in Parliament just to divert people's attention from real issues and their failures.

In the state government's reply on the concluding day of the winter session of the Jharkhand assembly, the chief minister alleged that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre was acting in a partisan manner against non-BJP-ruled states.

Referring to the Indigo crisis and the recent Delhi bomb blast, the chief minister said, "What is their agenda in the Parliament? Vande Mataram. How much poverty does such a discussion allev...