BJP bikers from Tamil Nadu reach Bihar

PATNA: A 25-member team of bikers, led by Guinness World Records title holder Rajlakshmi Manda from Tamil Nadu, reached the state BJP headquarters here on Saturday as part of its all-India mission to propagate among people the idea that Narendra Modi should be made the country’s Prime Minister again.
State BJP vice-president Devesh Kumar, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha state president and Bankipore MLA Nitin Navin and other party functionaries, including Pankaj Singh, Rakesh Kumar Singh and Arvind Thakur, welcomed the team.
At the felicitation function organised at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Auditorium, Manda said the team, which had started its bike journey from Karnataka on January 14, would reach Delhi on May 6 via Uttar Pradesh. The team arrived at Patna from Begusarai through Jharkhand, having covered Odisha and West Bengal in between.
“The team is telling people that the country needs to become ‘sashakt, samriddha, balshaali aur vishwaguru’, which could be possible only if Modi returns to power at the Centre. The slogan of the team is ‘Kaho dil se, Modi phir se’,” Manda said.
Nitin Navin said the NDA was leaving no stone unturned to win all 40 parliamentary seats in the state. “We will dedicate ourselves with a new vigour to fulfil and realise the ‘NaMo Again’ resolution that your team has taken,” the MLA added.
Devesh said the bikers’ team was inspirational. “You all are on a national mission. It is very inspiring for all of us,” he added.
Members of the team were clad in saffron-coloured T-shirts carrying ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ slogan. The team has so far covered 31,000km across the country.
Back in 2017, Manda had entered the Guinness World Records for pulling a 9.5 tonne truck at an event organised to showcase women’s empowerment. Manda is a teacher based in Tamil Nadu. She also runs Manda’s Educational Institute.
After the felicitation event, the team members went around the BJP’s state headquarters and also called on the party’s national general secretary and Bihar election incharge Bhupender Yadav. Yadav flagged off their onward journey to Delhi via Ara and Buxar.