PM claims NDA win in 1st phase, describes Mahagathbandhan as alliance of dynasts
Describing Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-Congress “Mahagathbandhan” combine as an “alliance of dynasts”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at the Opposition saying they were only concerned about their own families. He urged people of Bihar not to allow the State go “sick again” and see the “difference” between the “Jungle Raj and Sushasan”.
Kicking off the second-phase of his election campaign in Bihar, the PM claimed that the first round of the poll “indicates NDA victory”. “Voter turnout in phase one elections on Wednesday proves that the NDA Government under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is returning to power,” said Modi in his first rally in Chapra, the political bastion of Lalu Prasad, the RJD leader serving a prison sentence in corruption cases.
The turnout was around 54 per cent on first-phase voting on October 28. In the second phase, voting for 94 seats will be held on November 3. In the third phase, 78 seats will go to polls on November 7. Counting will take place on November 10. In a stinging jibe at RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as “yuvraj of Jungle Raj” and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, another Yuvraj whom “people have already tested”, Modi said the contest is between “double Yuvraj versus double engine” in Bihar.
The PM addressed four rallies in Bihar that is the first State voting amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“Bihar will re-elect the “double engine” Government of Janata Dal United and the Bharatiya Janata Party,” said Modi alleging the Opposition will bring back “Jungle Raj”. He said the public response during the Bihar Assembly elections clearly indicated that the new Government in the State will again be formed under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s leadership.
In Samastipur, his second rally of the day, the PM again claimed every assessment was predicting NDA victory in Bihar. He urged people to vote for the NDA alliance.
Tejashawi’s public rallies are, however, witnessing huge public attendance making poll observers hold their horses until the last phase of the poll in the State. “What have these family-oriented parties working only for themselves given you? If big bungalows are being built, whom are they built for? If palaces are built, whom are they for? If a large number of vehicles worth crores of rupees have arrived, who gets them,” the PM asked people at the rally.
“Today, if every assessment, every survey is claiming NDA victory, there is a strong reason for it. Our mothers and sisters are again helping to form another NDA Government in Bihar,” he said.
Modi stressed on the difference between what he called ‘Jungle Raj’ and ‘development’. He cautioned the people of Bihar against going back to the days of being ‘bimar’.
“Will you bring back those who made Bihar ill?” he asked the audience in Samastipur.
“They have nothing to do with your development, but with only their own development. This is their truth, this is their way, this is their training,” Modi said while hitting out at the Congress-RJD-Left alliance which is giving a tough challenge to the NDA’s bid to retain power in Bihar with incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, making his fourth bid at the chief ministership, facing huge anti-incumbency. The Prime Minister claimed that a vote for the Opposition will mean return to chaos and uncertainty in Bihar.
Modi said that the BJP will set up 1,000 farmer producer organisations for Bihar’s farmers and create a better environment to attract investment in order to generate jobs.
He claimed that the Left parties, which are fighting elections as part of the Grand Alliance, have a “history of closing down factories”.
Modi also referred to former CM Karpoori Thakur and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel during his speech, alleging top Congress leader failed to remember India’s ‘Iron Man’ on his birth anniversary on October 31.
He also referred to Samastipur as the land of martyr Aman Kumar, who made the supreme sacrifice in the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in June.
Monday, 02 November 2020 | Deepak K Upreti | New Delhi
