Amitabh Srivastava: With assembly polls just months away, political parties in Bihar — JDU, RJD — are engaged in a verbal spat. Among them is Deputy Chief Minister and senior state BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who posted a slew of tweets, in which he hit out at RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav.
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– With elections just months away, political parties in Bihar are engaged in a verbal spat
– Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi hit out at RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav
– “We have done so much for Bihar, what have you done,” BJP leader Sushil Modi asked RJD
With assembly polls just months away, political parties in Bihar — JDU, RJD — are engaged in a verbal spat. Among them is Deputy Chief Minister and senior state BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who posted a slew of tweets, in which he hit out at RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav.
“Lalu Prasad should know upon the request of which Chief Minister 4,000 special trains were commissioned for ferrying home migrants stuck during lockdown. This included 1,506 trains that carried over 21 lakhs workers to their homes in Bihar,” said Sushil Kumar Modi, as he hit out at the RJD chief, who is serving a jail sentence in the fodder scam case.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made this request during Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s video conference on April 27. The Railways started running Shramik special trains for migrants across the country from May 1.
Sushil Modi’s counterattack came after RJD leaders, including Tejashwi Yadav, slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for not doing enough for migrant workers in Bihar, who were stranded in various parts of the country due to coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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While Nitish Kumar has refused to get involved in a war of words with RJD, Sushil Modi has taken up the cudgels on NDA’s behalf to issue a rebuttal and counterattack against Bihar’s principal opposition party — RJD.
“Lalu Prasad is a convicted man. He has been in judicial custody for 1,095 days. His son Tejashwi Yadav had gone missing for 33 days immediately after the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. And during the lockdown, he remained at an undisclosed location for 50 days. They do not have any moral rights to criticise the chief minister,” Sushil Modi said.
Sushil Modi also went on to praise Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by saying that the chief minister has been striving hard to help people who have been suffering in the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
“The state government has spent Rs 8,538 crore, most of it as direct bank transfer, to help the economically vulnerable people of Bihar. My question to RJD is simple: we have done this much for people of Bihar, what have you done?” Sushil Modi asked.
Bihar assembly elections are scheduled to take place in October-November this year.
