Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally in Gopalganj, in the run-up to the fourth phase of voting in Bihar’s Assembly poll.
‘Grand Alliance Leaders Abusive’
Modi said the leaders of the Grand Alliance or the Mahagathbandhan have become more abusive after realising that his rallies were pulling crowds. Attacking the Congress, he said the party’s leaders failed to do any good in spite of being in power for several decades and now have a problem with his “good” work.
Am I Pakistan’s Prime Minister? Am I Bangladesh’s or Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister? I will ask him (Nitish Kumar) if he also calls Madam Sonia, who lives in Delhi a bahri? Is she a bahri or Bihari? Those who cannot give an account of their work play these games to mislead them.
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
He then shifted focus to Lalu, questioning what the party and its leaders had done for the benefit of Bihar in the past two decades. He accused the Lalu and Nitish governments of turning the Gopalganj area into a mini Chambal during the “jungle raj era”.
Criminals carried ammunition openly in railway stations, women were harassed and kidnapping was a business in the past. You turned this place into a mini Chambal.
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
Modi also responded to Nitish’s interview in which he asked the Prime Minister to give the people their old days back. In the interview, Nitish alleged that before the promise of achhe din—which was Modi’s promise of better days during the Lok Sabha elections last year—the people were much happier.
In response, Modi said the people of Bihar did not want the old days of excessive crime.
Discussing his visit to Abu Dhabi, Modi said he asked the authorities there to let him visit the labour colony. Modi said that a majority of the labourers were from Bihar and accused Lalu and Nitish governments of forcing them to go abroad in search of employment.
Who forced them to go outside the country? Who forced them to become outsiders? My only aim is to develop Bihar so that you don’t have to leave Bihar.
Ministers Caught on Camera and the Tantrik Video
Modi attacked Nitish over the issue of sting operations on JDU ministers where they were caught taking bribes on camera.
Nitish Kumar promised to seize the assets of those caught taking bribes. He said their houses will be converted into schools for the poor. What happened to that promise? Is he not ashamed? Nitish babu, why are you fooling the people of Bihar?
Modi went on read the names of about a dozen scams from the Lalu-Nitish era and asked the people if they wanted to give such a government another chance.
Modi said after so many U-turns from his promises, Nitish Kumar no longer has the guts to face the people and hence he is seeking tantriks.
You can bring the tantriks from across the country, Nitish babu. It will still not help. The people of Bihar are not going to save you this time.
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