PATNA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday told the people of the state that if they voted Congress and Lalu Prasad’s RJD to power, it would “lead to riots, oppression, injustice, poverty and hunger”.
“If you support the NDA, symbolized by the lotus and arrow, it will propel Bihar forward under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and CM Nitish Kumar and bring development and prosperity to the state,” Shah said while addressing an election rally in Katihar to seek support for JD(U) candidate Dual Chandra Goswami.
Shah said the opposition INDIA bloc aims to regress Bihar to the era of lanterns.
In his speech that lasted barely 15 minutes, Shah, who spoke in the presence of CM Nitish Kumar, also dwelt at length on the alleged anti-backward classes stance of the Congress, which has sought to reach out to the OBCs with the promise of nationwide caste census, besides forming alliances with parties like the RJD that have roots in the Mandal movement.
The former BJP president said RJD joined hands with the Congress that opposed the recommendations of the Kaka Kalelkar Commission and the Mandal Commission, which were meant for providing reservations to backward classes.
“The Congress slept on the Kaka Kalelkar Commission report and when recommendations of Mandal Commission were implemented, it opposed the same for years,” the Union minister said. “It was under Modi that the National Commission for Backward Classes was granted constitutional status. Now, Lalu Prasad’s RJD has joined hands with the same Congress,” he added.
Shah credited the BJP with having given the nation, in Narendra Modi, its “first OBC prime minister” who has “put an end” to dynasty politics.
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