Patna: The RJD on Thursday rejected the state government's appeal to take part in the human chain on January 21 against dowry and child marriage, and taunted chief minister Nitish Kumar for "forgetting" Bihar's demand of special category status from the Centre.

Lalu Prasad's party said the human chain does not have any meaning at all.

"In the name of human chain the people are just being troubled," said Bhagalpur RJD MP Shailesh Kumar a.k.a Bulo Mandal, who is the national president of the RJD youth wing. "He (Nitish) did the same thing last year for prohibition and again he wants to trouble people. If at all Nitish ji wants to form the chain he should have formed it on his first agenda for which he continuously struggled for seven long years - that is special category status to Bihar."

Mandal took a jab at the ruling combine's claim of "double-engine" government - same alliance at Delhi and Patna.

"If the Centre is not giving special category status to Bihar then Nitish ji should form a human chain to show his strength to the Prime Minister. If there would be human chain for special category status to Bihar then we will support it, otherwise there is no sense of forming human chain issues like dowry and child marriage. Laws against these evils exist for a long time and there is nothing new that he is doing," Mandal said.

He said prohibition has made the state financially weak and unable to generate revenue for development work.

Accompanied by RJD state unit president Ram Chandra Purbey in the party office, Mandal asked Nitish to explain that how he was meeting the financial loss from prohibition.

"There is no development taking place in the state and Nitish ji is cheating the people of Bihar. Law and order has also collapsed and incidents of murder, loot and robbery have increased manifold," Mandal alleged.

He also dared Nitish to ask the Prime Minister to implement prohibition across India.

Purbey said every day 10 murders, robberies and rapes are taking place.

"I cannot see the same enthusiasm in Nitish over the issue of special category status to Bihar because the chain of scams has become longer under his leadership," Purbey said.