NEW DELHI: As Bihar gear up for the 2025 Assembly elections in two phases early November, several constituencies are drawing major political attention. The key seats closely watched this time are Sasaram, Gopalganj, Ramnagar, Rghopur and Alinagar.
The electioneering intensified on Wednesday as top BJP and Congress leaders firing salvo at each other. While Union Home Minister Amit termed the Mahagathbandhan a ‘thug bandhan’, Rahul Gandhi took a dig at Modi saying that the PM would “dance on stage for votes”.
Shah addressing a rally at Darbhanga in Bihar targeted both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rahul Gandhi saying that the RJD supremo wants to make his son Tejashwi the chief minister of Bihar and Sonia Gandhi wishes to see her son Rahul as the prime minister, asserting that “both posts are not vacant.”
The HM further termed the Mahagathbandhan as ‘thug bandhan’, adding that Lalu was involved in fodder, land-for-jobs scams, and Congress was involved in corruptions cases worth Rs 12 lakh crore.
Asserting that the Modi government had put a ban on radical Muslim outfit PFI (Popular Front of India) and arrested its members, Shah said the RJD would let the arrested PFI members go free if it comes to power in Bihar.
On the other side, Rahul Gandhi said: “I agree with Tejashwi Yadav, who spoke just before me, that the government in Bihar is being run through remote control. They are simply using the face of Nitish Kumar,”
He also attacked PM Modi and his “drama” over Yamuna water in Delhi.
“You all must have seen the drama that PM Narendra Modi wanted to enact by declaring that he was going to take a dip in the Yamuna on the occasion of Chhath Puja. When it came to the fore that it was a water body created through piped water, Modi flinched.”
