Bihar Election: Why Amit Shah Keep Saying Lalu and Company But Doesn’t Take Tejashwi Yadav’s Name
Bihar Election:Lalu Prasad Yadav’s politics has always revolved around “caste, criminalisation of politics and corruption,” and his workers continue to run their campaign on the same lines, Union Home Minister Amit Shah told Times Now, explaining on his insistence on referring the RJD leader and his party as “Lalu and Company”.
“It is my reference for their party’s strategy. Lalu Prasad has always used caste politics, criminalisation of politics and corruption – these three things have been the cornerstones of his politics. Taking a cue from him, his workers are also strategising their campaign on the same basis. So when I talk about Lalu ji, people understand I’m talking about these three issues,” Shah told Times Now Group Editor-in-Chief Navika Kumar.
Asked why he avoids mentioning RJD chief’s son and Opposition INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial face, Tejashwi Yadav, Shah said the younger leader is “very much a part of the company.”
Bihar Election:’Bihar to See Portfolios of Murder, Kidnapping, Extortion if Lalu’s Son Voted to Power’
Amit Shah has claimed that the INDIA bloc would create “three portfolios of murder, kidnapping and extortion” if the opposition alliance gets a chance to form a government in the state.
Shah also urged people to vote for the NDA to “check the recurrence of ‘jungle raj’ witnessed during the RJD regime” in the state.
Addressing election rallies in Muzaffarpur and Vaishali, Shah appealed to electors to “cast votes to prevent the return of ‘jungle raj’ that saw kidnappings, murders, atrocities”.
“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,” Shah said.
In a blistering attack on the family of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, the former BJP president warned that if Tejashwi Yadav becomes chief minister, Bihar would see the birth of “three new portfolios”.
“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 alleged.
He also claimed that “infighting is underway among ‘Mahagathbandhan’ constituents in Bihar”, but five NDA allies were committed to taking the state to new heights.
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”.
On the other side, he accused Prasad 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”.
“Lalu & company and Rahul & company indulged in Rs 12 lakh crore scams and corruption,” Shah alleged.
Bihar Election: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.
