People won't forget Bihar's 'jungle raj': PM Modi's attack on RJD-Congress

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged young workers of the party’s Bihar unit to remind the state’s young voters of the RJD’s “jungle raj”. 

“I would tell all the youngsters in Bihar to gather all the young people at every booth and have the elderly people in that area come and tell everyone about the old stories from the jungle raj,” PM Modi said while speaking to booth workers virtually in a “Mera Booth Sabse Mazboot” programme. 

The prime minister is set to start his poll campaigns in the state from Friday. He will hold poll meetings in Samastipur and Begusarai. 

BJP president JP Nadda was in Bihar holding rallies in Aurangabad and Hajipur and said that the Bihar assembly elections was a battle between the NDA’s ‘Vikaas’ (development) and INDIA bloc’s ‘Vinaash’ (destruction).

“The hallmark of the Congress party is that it is a parasitic party that finishes off its junior alliance partners,” Nadda said. He added that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), led by Lalu Prasad, is a party know for its ‘Rangdari’ (extortion), ‘Jungle raj’ (lawlessness) and ‘Dadagiri’ (bullying).

He said that RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s promises of employment generation and controlling migration are hollow. “This is the same party that was involved in a land-for-jobs scam,” Nadda said. “The RJD should tell us from where will the funds be generated to pay the salaries if they were to give jobs to every family as they have promised.”

Nadda pointed at the RJD fielding gangster-politician Shahabuddin’s son Osama Shahab who is contesting from the Raghunathpur constituency in Siwan district. “The RJD has fielded Shahabuddin's son... how can it ensure the security of the people of Bihar if it fields such candidates? Lalu’s RJD stands for Rangdari, Jungleraj and Dadagiri,” he stated. 

He said that, in contrast, chief minister Nitish Kumar, eliminated ‘jungleraj’ in Bihar over the past two decades. “In this election, the fight is between ‘Vikaas’ and ‘Vinaash’,” Nadda said.