'Yuvrajs out on bail': PM mocks Rahul, Tejashwi; invokes '5 Ks' to attack oppn

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Thursday accused the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of insulting Chhathi Maiyya and utilizing the contented for votes successful the Bihar assembly elections.Speaking astatine a canvass rally successful Muzaffarpur, PM Modi said leaders of the Congress and RJD see Chhath Puja a "drama", and voters successful Bihar would retrieve this.

"It is my archetypal circuit of Bihar aft Chhath Puja, which is present celebrated satellite over. The festival stands not conscionable for devotion but besides for equality, a crushed wherefore my authorities is trying to get a Unesco practice tag for this festival," helium said.PM Modi added that helium listens to Chhath songs portion travelling. He said, "I perceive to Chhath songs portion travelling. I was erstwhile moved to perceive to 1 of these songs rendered by a miss from Nagaland.

But portion this lad of yours is engaged ensuring that Chhath gets the honour that is its due, the Congress-RJD radical are heaping scorn connected the festival, calling it a drama, a nautanki," without naming immoderate leader.

At a rally earlier, Congress person

Rahul Gandhi

had accused PM Modi of readying a "drama" by attempting to instrumentality a dip successful the Yamuna connected the juncture of Chhath Puja. Gandhi claimed PM Modi dropped the program aft it was recovered that the h2o astatine the tract was a puddle created with clean, piped water, portion the Yamuna was polluted and not acceptable for bathing.

Modi responded, "Look astatine the depths to which these radical tin stoop portion seeking votes. This is an insult to the festival of Chhath that Bihar volition not hide for centuries."PM besides criticised Rahul Gandhi and

Tejashwi Yadav

, calling them "naamdaars" who, according to him, who cannot digest their nutrient without "abusing a kaamdaar" (worker).The premier curate referred to some leaders arsenic “yuvrajs”. He said 1 belonged to what helium described arsenic the country’s “most corrupt family”, portion the different came from the “most corrupt household successful Bihar”.PM Modi said, “In Bihar's governmental battlefield, a duo of yuvrajs has opened a store of mendacious promises. One is the prince of India's astir corrupt family, and the different is the prince of Bihar's astir corrupt family. Both are retired connected bail successful scams worthy thousands of crores.”He said the Congress and RJD were moving unneurotic lone for power. PM Modi said their confederation was similar h2o and lipid and claimed the 2 parties "grab powerfulness astatine immoderate cost, truthful that they tin loot Bihar."

The premier curate besides said determination were reports of fights betwixt members of the 2 parties.

PM Modi said surveys indicated that the RJD-led confederation would look a decision successful the predetermination and truthful it was making "unrealistic promises."He accused the confederation of representing 5 'Ks': 'katta' (country-made weapons – lawlessness), 'kroorta' (cruelty), 'katuta' (social resentment), 'kushasan' (misgovernance) and corruption.PM Modi said that during the RJD rule, "35,000–40,000 abductions took place" and that "goons utilized to loot conveyance showrooms." He besides said songs played astatine the alliance’s rallies referenced weapons similar 'katta, dunali'.PM Modi said the

National Democratic Alliance

(NDA) is moving to support taste practice and guarantee development. He began his code by starring the assemblage into chanting, “phir ek baar NDA sarkar” and “phir ek baar susashan sarkar.”