'Held Cong at gunpoint': PM on how Tejashwi became CM face in Bihar polls

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday sharpened his onslaught connected the Opposition’s INDIA bloc during his run rallies successful Bihar’s Arrah, Bhojpur, and Nawada districts, alleging that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) “forced” the Congress to denote Tejashwi Yadav arsenic their main ministerial candidate.As per PTI, PM Modi claimed that the Congress “never wanted” Tejashwi to beryllium declared the alliance’s CM look but was pressured into doing so. “The RJD secured it by placing a katta (country-made gun) connected the caput of the Congress. They person learnt their lessons successful the schoolhouse of jungle raj. Such elements tin ne'er bash bully for Bihar,” helium said astatine a rally successful Bhojpur. The Prime Minister alleged that the RJD’s “hooliganism” and “strong-arm politics” reflected the party’s aged ways of governance.As per quality bureau ANI, the Prime Minister said, “Just a time earlier information filing, down closed doors, gundagardi was happening. Congress did not privation to person an RJD CM, but RJD did not permission the opportunity. They enactment a weapon connected Congress' caput and stole the CM’s post.” He further claimed that the confederation partners were divided and would “break each other’s heads” aft the elections.PM Modi besides said that the ruling NDA represented unity and development, portion the Opposition confederation symbolised “jungle raj marked by katta, grirta, katuta, kusanskar, kushashan, and corruption.”

He alleged that the RJD-Congress harvester was moving to “erase Bihar’s identity” by supporting infiltrators.In Nawada, PM Modi highlighted the NDA’s committedness to springiness an further Rs 3,000 to farmers nether the state’s ‘Kapurgari Thakur Kisan Samman Nidhi’ scheme, implicit and supra the ₹6,000 provided annually nether the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi.“This is Modi — jinhe koi nahi poochhta, Modi unhe poojta hai (Modi worships those whom nary 1 other cares about),” helium said, arsenic reported by ANI. The PM claimed Rs 650 crore had already been deposited into accounts of 2 lakh farmers successful Nawada and noted that the NDA’s policies were aimed astatine uplifting tiny farmers, “ignored since Independence.”He besides took a swipe astatine the Congress for corruption during past governments, recalling Rajiv Gandhi’s remark that lone “15 paisa retired of each rupee sent from Delhi reached the villages.” PM Modi added that his authorities ensures that “the afloat magnitude reaches farmers without immoderate chopped oregon commission.”As per quality bureau PTI, the PM urged radical to cull “those liable for jungle raj,” asserting that the NDA authorities was “upright, foresighted, and committed to gathering a developed Bihar arsenic portion of a Viksit Bharat.” He besides invoked Operation Sindoor, saying it “made the federation proud,” and targeted the Congress for “losing slumber erstwhile terrorists were being bombed.”Polling for Bihar’s 243 assembly seats volition instrumentality spot successful 2 phases — connected November 6 and 11 — with counting connected November 14.