Patna, March 28: JDU MLA and the party's national general secretary Shyam Rajak today let out his frustration against his own government - RJD leader and finance minister Abdul Bari Siddiqui.

" Aapke kathani aur karni mein bahut antar hai (There is a huge difference between what you say and what you do)," Rajak said in the Assembly.

The barb came after Rajak asked a question on banks giving student scholarships in Bihar. Education minister Ashok Choudhary answered the question, though Siddiqui was present.

Choudhary conceded that the disbursal of student scholarships was poor. Out of 10,623 applications, banks had given loans to only 717 students so far.

The education minister virtually threw his hands up when asked if action would be taken against the erring banks.

"The education department does not control the banks," Choudhary said. "The finance minister puts pressure on banks through state-level meetings. The finance minister has informed the House that the government will not deposit its money in banks which do not provide sufficient loans to people under government schemes."

This prompted Rajak to say that the finance department was not doing enough to force banks to give loans to students.

"The state proposes to push the percentage of people's access to higher education from the current 13 per cent to the national average of 23 per cent", Rajak said. Looking at Siddiqui, Rajak then added: " Aapke kathani aur karni mein bahut antar hai"

Loans to students are part of chief minister Nitish Kumar's seven resolves. The state government has stopped giving stipends to Dalit students studying in technical institutes on the ground that it will now provide student loans instead of stipends for higher education.

However, banks have been reluctant to give student loans to every applicant and first analyse the student's background and the technical institute to which the student wants to apply.

BJP leader Sushil Modi called the target of loans to 5 lakh students over-ambitious.

"When we were in the government we tried to increase the number of students getting loans from banks," he said. "It did not even reach 25,000."