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Amit Shah urged people to vote for the NDA to check the recurrence of jungle raj that saw kidnappings, murders, and atrocities during the RJD regime.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at poll-bound rally in Bihar. (X)
Bihar Polls 2025: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), saying that Bihar would see “creation of three portfolios of murder, kidnapping and extortion” if Tejashwi Yadav is voted to power in the upcoming assembly elections.
While addressing a poll-bound rally in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, Shah claimed that, on the other hand, if the NDA retains power, a separate ministry for flood control would be set up to ensure that the state is made flood-free.
He urged people to vote for the NDA to check the recurrence of jungle raj that saw kidnappings, murders, and atrocities during the RJD regime.
“If Lalu’s son (Tejashwi) becomes Bihar chief minister, three more new portfolios will be created to oversee kidnapping, extortion and murder…Your votes for the NDA will save Bihar from RJD’s ‘jungle raj’. Efforts are underway to bring back ‘jungle raj’ with new faces,” Shah said, as quoted by news agency PTI.
“If voted to power, the NDA will make Bihar flood-free. It is our pledge. We will set up a separate ministry to ensure that Bihar is saved from flood fury,” he added.
He also claimed infighting is underway among ‘Mahagathbandhan’ constituents in Bihar.
The Union Minister also accused Lalu Prasad Yadav and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi of “trying to make their sons the Bihar Chief Minister and the Prime Minister, respectively, and asserted that both posts “are not vacant”.
Shah further highlighted welfare schemes launched under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the reduction in GST would help litchi growers in Bihar, and “steps are being taken to set up a mega food park in Muzaffarpur with Rs 20,000 crore investment.
“PM Modi made India secure, safe, and prosperous and launched various welfare schemes,” Shah said at the Muzaffarpur rally.
He claimed that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s 20-year rule and PM Modi’s 11-year regime at the Centre were fully “transparent with no corruption charges levelled”.
He asserted, “Lalu (RJD’s regime) gave only Rs 2.80 lakh crore to Bihar in 10 years, whereas Modi allotted Rs 18.15 lakh crore between 2014 to 2025″ for the state’s development.
“We will set up over 50,000 cottage industries, and will invest Rs one lakh crore in agriculture infrastructure. Can Lalu-Rabri or Sonia do such development works?” he questioned.
Shah termed the NDA allies – the BJP, JD(U), Chirag Paswan’s LJP (RV), HAM, Kushwaha’s party as the five ‘Pandavas’ and said they will “ensure Bihar’s prosperity”.
Highlighting the poll promises made in the NDA manifesto, he said one crore Bihar youth will be given private and government jobs, and each district will have a mega skill centre.
“Also, the NDA government in Bihar will provide Rs 3,000 to each farmer in addition to Rs 6,000 by the Centre. As many as 44,000 youth benefited from Mukhyamantri Udyami Yojana,” he added.
Bihar Polls 2025
The 243-member Bihar assembly will go to polls in two phases on November 6 and November 11, with results set to be announced on November 14.
(With inputs from agencies)
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
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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