Patna: It is raining gifts for MLAs in Bihar during the ongoing Budget session of the state Assembly and today was no exception--an expensive microwave oven was waiting to be picked up.

Besides the ovens given to the legislators costing the state exchequer an estimated Rs 25 to 30 lakh, suitcases and mobile phones were other gifts doled out to them by various departments of Bihar's Mahagatbandhan government headed by Nitish Kumar during the first budget session after it assumed office in November last year.