BETTIAH, Jan. 20 -- On the fourth day of his ongoing Samriddhi Yatra, chief minister Nitish Kumar reached RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's home district, where he rolled out a fresh tranche of development works worth Rs.316 crore through a series of inaugurations, including a road constructed on the Saran embankment and foundation stone laying in Gopalganj district, on Tuesday.

Addressing a gathering at Barauli, Kumar pilloried his predecessors, alleging that they had done "no meaningful work" during their tenure. "What was the situation in Bihar before 2005? There was frequent social unrest. People did not dare to step out of their homes after dusk," Kumar said in a dig at Lalu Prasad's CM tenures through 1990's .

"There was no proper e...