Patna, Feb. 20: The high-profile global summit over, it’s time for the Nitish Kumar government to face the ground realities at home.

“We are going to ask the government to table a white paper on how much public money was spent to hold events like the global summit during the last five years. A few years ago a mega-event in Patna was held to define BPL. The chief minister himself went to Hyderabad to woo NRIs. The white paper should have facts on how these mega-events have benefited Bihar,” said Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui.

The shadow of the global meet is going to stretch itself to the long budget session starting Tuesday and ending April 4.

The Opposition has held the global meet with contempt, dubbing it a “brand Nitish” exercise.

From RJD chief Lalu Prasad, CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya to state Congress president Mehboob Ali Qaiser, all have questioned the relevance of the summit and described it as a ploy of the Nitish government to divert failures of the government at the ground level.

“The ground realities are that crime has become uncontrolled. Women are being beaten up by the police. There have been many custodial deaths and for a government which swears by the agrarian sector, farmers are not getting seeds and fertilisers in the market,” Siddiqui said.

The Opposition appears set to grill the government on what it calls the “enrolment scam” — an irregularity conceded by the government itself in welfare schemes like school uniforms, mid-day meals and cycles being siphoned off by showing exaggerated figures of students in state-run schools.

The government, which enjoys brute majority in the Assembly, is ready with its fightback though. Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said Rs 2.8 crore was earmarked for the summit of which around Rs 2 crore was spent.

“It’s the role of the Opposition to speak against the government and they have done it. Our answer lies in the fact that people from around the globe came to attend the event and that too, people who are considered leaders in their respective fields,” Modi said.

The governor’s address will be held on Tuesday, followed by tabling of the economic survey of the state the following day. The budget for the financial year 2012-13 will be tabled on February 24. “It promises to be a session of fireworks,” said an MLA of the ruling alliance.