PM Narendra Modi to launch NDA campaign on March 3 in Bihar
Abhay Singh | TNN | Jan 28, 2019, 01:41 IST
PM Narendra Modi (AP photo)PATNA: PM Narendra Modi would formally launch the NDA campaign for the parliamentary elections in Bihar at Gandhi Maidan on March 3.
“We have collectively invited PM Modi to address the rally to which he has given his consent. We have also invited national presidents of the three parties – CM Nitish Kumar of JD(U), Amit Shah of BJP and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP. They have also agreed to be present,” state JD(U) president and Rajya Sabha member Bashishtha Narain Singh said on Sunday.
JD(U) state president said that the coordination committee of the three NDA partners would be formed at the state and district levels to mobilize people for the March 3 mega show. “All the leaders and rank and file of the parties would lend their might,” Singh added.
Incidentally, the PM will address the public meeting exactly a month after the Congress’s rally at the same venue on February 3. Congress president Rahul Gandhi would address it in the dramatically altered situation now that he has already unleashed political ‘brahmastra’ in the party’s general secretary for UP, Priyanka Gandhi.
State BJP president Nityanand Rai said the March 3 rally should not be seen as its show of strength against the Congress, which he dismissed by saying, “What is there left in the Congress to give it a counter reply.” LJP state president and minister Pashupati Kumar Paras also spoke on the occasion.
Rai said the NDA rally would be the biggest spectacle held at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan in the last 40 years and would be underlined by the theme “55-year Congress rule (at the Centre) versus five-year rule of PM Modi”. Accordingly, it has been christened as ‘hisaab lenge, hisaab denge’ mega show.
The NDA’s proposed mega show has the echoes of a similar theme with which the then PM Chandrashekhar had showcased his performance vis-à-vis the Congress rule till then as “40 saal banaam chaar mahina” during the 1991 parliamentary elections that was held after the balance of payment crisis partially tided over by the then Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha.
Interestingly, back in October 2013, Modi as the then Gujarat CM and BJP’s PM candidate, had launched his campaign for the 2014 parliamentary elections in Bihar by addressing a ‘Hunkar Rally’ at Gandhi Maidan that was scarred by terror bomb blasts.
“We have collectively invited PM Modi to address the rally to which he has given his consent. We have also invited national presidents of the three parties – CM Nitish Kumar of JD(U), Amit Shah of BJP and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP. They have also agreed to be present,” state JD(U) president and Rajya Sabha member Bashishtha Narain Singh said on Sunday.
JD(U) state president said that the coordination committee of the three NDA partners would be formed at the state and district levels to mobilize people for the March 3 mega show. “All the leaders and rank and file of the parties would lend their might,” Singh added.
Incidentally, the PM will address the public meeting exactly a month after the Congress’s rally at the same venue on February 3. Congress president Rahul Gandhi would address it in the dramatically altered situation now that he has already unleashed political ‘brahmastra’ in the party’s general secretary for UP, Priyanka Gandhi.
State BJP president Nityanand Rai said the March 3 rally should not be seen as its show of strength against the Congress, which he dismissed by saying, “What is there left in the Congress to give it a counter reply.” LJP state president and minister Pashupati Kumar Paras also spoke on the occasion.
Rai said the NDA rally would be the biggest spectacle held at the sprawling Gandhi Maidan in the last 40 years and would be underlined by the theme “55-year Congress rule (at the Centre) versus five-year rule of PM Modi”. Accordingly, it has been christened as ‘hisaab lenge, hisaab denge’ mega show.
The NDA’s proposed mega show has the echoes of a similar theme with which the then PM Chandrashekhar had showcased his performance vis-à-vis the Congress rule till then as “40 saal banaam chaar mahina” during the 1991 parliamentary elections that was held after the balance of payment crisis partially tided over by the then Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha.
Interestingly, back in October 2013, Modi as the then Gujarat CM and BJP’s PM candidate, had launched his campaign for the 2014 parliamentary elections in Bihar by addressing a ‘Hunkar Rally’ at Gandhi Maidan that was scarred by terror bomb blasts.
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