‘What’s His Math?’ JP Nadda Slams Rahul Gandhi For Opposing Bihar SIR | Politics News

Last Updated:September 13, 2025, 17:15 IST

JP Nadda criticised Rahul Gandhi over SIR allegations and vote chori claims, praised NDA’s Bihar growth, and condemned Congress for insulting slogans against PM Modi’s mother.

Union Minister and BJP president JP Nadda. (X)

BJP President and Union Minister JP Nadda on Saturday lambasted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for frequently raising objections to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and repeating allegations of “vote chori” in the recently held elections.

While addressing an event in Patna, Nadda said that the Lok Sabha LoP has never been consistent in his allegations. “Where does Rahul Gandhi get these figures from in SIR (Special Intensive Revision), and what is his Mathematics? Sometimes, he alleges 70 lakh voters were added ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls last year, and at other times, he puts the number at one crore,” he said as quoted by news agency PTI.

Dubbing the opposition’s INDIA bloc as irresponsible, the Union Minister took a sarcastic jibe, saying that a bad workman always blames his tools. He said that when the public doesn’t bless them in elections, the entire opposition, including Congress, starts blaming the Election Commission of “vote theft.”

The BJP President further traded barbs at the opposition for hurling insulting slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother, saying that the repeated insults reflected the “filthy mindset” of the Congress and claimed that the opposition party will get “a befitting reply from the people of Bihar.”

“Abuses were hurled at the late mother of Modi, by someone who was understood to have been instigated by the Congress and its allies. Now, the latest video of the Congress confirms that they have a filthy mindset,” Nadda said Nadda, referring to the Darbhanga incident during the ’Voter Adhikar Yatra’ last month and an AI-generated video shared by the opposition party on social media.

Hinting that the BJP would raise the issue in the upcoming state assembly polls, Nadda said, “They will get a befitting reply from the people”.

The BJP leader, who spent his childhood in Bihar, asserted he has been a “witness” to the lawlessness that prevailed in the state until 2005, when the BJP-led NDA came to power with JD(U) president Nitish Kumar as the chief minister.

Taking a dig at RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Nadda said, “Under the NDA, Bihar has been registering a double-digit growth rate. But those who never reached class 10 can obviously not appreciate this fact”.

“People of Bihar can never forget the jungle raj. During Lalu Prasad’s tenure, people here were forced to migrate from the state. I must say the RJD is associated with corruption and jungle raj. R stands for ’Rangdaari’, J for ’Jungleraj’ and D means ’Dadagiri’. Today, under the leaderships of PM Modi and CM Nitish Kumar, people of Bihar are witnessing growth”, he added.

“Today, I have two pictures of Bihar before me — one is a dark Bihar, and the other is moving towards light. Everyone knows what Bihar’s situation was before 2005 and what the current situation is. Before 2005, there was politics of appeasement, corruption and state-supported crime. Today, under the NDA government, Bihar is progressing on the path of development,” Nadda added.

(With inputs from agencies)

Shobhit Gupta

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Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More

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