Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said migration of people from one state to another should not be seen as a problem as he asserted that the "nation is one" and people are free to move from one place to another.
The Janata Dal (United) chief's reaction came after election strategist and former party national vice-president Prashant Kishor and CPI's Kanhaiya Kumar flagged the issue of migration of youths from Bihar to other states and unemployment recently.
Addressing a JD(U) 'karyakarta sammelan' here, Kumar challenged his political opponents to have a look at the various measures taken by his government which have resulted in creation of jobs.
Recounting a conversation that he had with Raghunandan Lal Bhatia, who served as the governor of Bihar in 2008-09, Kumar said, "He asked me why was it that Punjab had started getting so fewer migrant workers from Bihar. Similar was the observation of the then Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal."
He, however, also said "ek gandi cheez shuru ho gayi hai migration ke naam se (a bad thing has started by way of this discourse over migration)."