Bihar assembly election 2020: BJP, Nitish Kumar intensify attack on Opposition

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday intensified their assaults on the Rashtriya Janata Dal whereas campaigning for the second part of state meeting elections.

While 46 BJP candidates are contesting the elections within the second part, JD(U) has fielded 43 candidates.

Addressing election conferences at Siwan and Begusarai, BJP president JP Nadda hit out at RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav saying “your mind is locked”.

“I was just listening…Tejashwi, he said ‘its landlocked’. It’s not landlocked, your mind is locked. This is not a story of ‘landlocked’. Your mind is locked,” Nadda stated, referring to Tejashwi’s persistent assault towards the CM over his comment that Bihar couldn’t be industrialised because the state is “landlocked”.

Nadda additionally attacked RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, underlining the social gathering’s fame of preferring muscle energy to schooling below the previous chief minister.

“These days even Tejashwi Yadav has started saying we will do this, we will do that. But who can trust you in an election? Those who have done something good in the past will do so in the future. In the past they (RJD) held ‘Tel Piyawan, Danda Bhanjan’ rally and in future too they will only wield lathis and do nothing else,” Nadda stated. He was referring to a ‘Tel Piyawan, Danda Bhanjan’ (dipping lathis in oil and wielding them to say energy) rally held by the RJD in 2003, two years earlier than the social gathering was ousted from energy in Bihar.” the BJP chief stated.

“Do you want to light a lantern or an LED bulb? A ‘loot raj’ or a ‘kanoon raj’? Bahubal (strongmanship) or vikasbal (development)?” Nadda requested.

In his election speeches, chief minister Nitish Kumar hit out at RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi, each former chief ministers.

Describing the RJD rule as a story of missed alternative, the CM stated, “Neither Lalu Prasad nor his wife Rabri Devi did anything for the empowerment of women, even after lording over the affairs of the state for 15 years.”

“What can be expected of their future promises, when they did not empower half of the population while remaining in power. How can any state prosper without women’s contribution and partnership in shaping the destiny of the state,” the CM requested.

Meanwhile, Tejashwi, the CM candidate for the Grand Alliance or the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, attacked the BJP-led central authorities for inflation. “Inflation has made the life of common people miserable. Inflation now has become a Bhabhi (sister-in-law) for the BJP while it was daine (witch) during UPA rule,” he stated at a rally in Begusarai.