Patna, Jan. 21: The BJP has found faults in improved power situation in the state. It would also highlight the alleged failure of the JDU government in electrifying villages ahead of the Assembly elections.

As things stand now, the power company is supposed to undertake electrification work in 43,000 revenue villages of which only about 27,000 have been electrified so far. Actual achievement on this front shows that only about half of the rural Bihar has been electrified so far giving a point to the main opposition party to attack the government.

At least 90 per cent of the state's 10 crore and odd population reside in villages. Almost half of them - around 4 crore - are deprived of the power facilities. The state BJP unit has decided to raise the government's failure in power connectivity in the rural areas.

State BJP president Mangal Pandey today said: 'As the power supply concerns the people directly, the party will raise the issue in coming elections.'

Pandey added that though the state government was claiming of having power supply in 15 to 20 hours in villages but the ground reality is that people in the rural areas are getting less than 10 hours power supply in a day.

On Tuesday, Nitish Kumar released a video tape of his Independence Day address in 2012 promising that he would not go to seek votes if he failed to improve the power scenario. Nitish, attacking the BJP, said the BJP was misquoting him saying that he had promised power to every household overlooking that the power scenario has improved immensely. It is not only Pandey is attacking the state government over poor power supply even senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on earlier occasions had attacked the government on the project. Modi had attacked the state government for poor implementation of electric works under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme.

According to Modi, under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme, under the 12th Five-Year Plan in Gaya, the home district of chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, only 1 per cent work has been executed. Similarly, in Nalanda, the home district of Nitish Kumar, electrification in 998 villages was to be carried out but only 16 per cent villages have been touched.