My first loyalty is not to India, but to the state of Bihar. And I take no pleasure in saying that the shocking results of the intermediate examinations are symptomatic of the deeper rot that has set into the education system of the state as a whole. Every year, we're just producing an army of semi-educated young men and women who are both unemployed and unemployable. Once upon a time, we used to have a very hardworking chief minister in Mr. Nitish Kumar with a progressive development-oriented agenda. He is squandering away all the goodwill by firstly, this puritanical zeal in imposing prohibition at the cost of every other important matter in the state, and secondly, the decision to enter into an alliance with a thoroughly discredited Lalu Yadav, who does not so have a political party as a gang of mercenary thugs. Bihar is crying out for deliverance from this miasma of anarchy, cynicism, and boredom.