RJD to observe 'Garib Adhikar Diwas' on the day of Shah’s digital rally

PATNA: Taking a dig at union minister and senior BJP functionary Amit Shah’s virtual tour of north Bihar slated to be held on June 9, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav said on Monday that RJD will observe Garib Adhikar Diwas on the same day to condemn BJP’s virtual tour.
Hours after BJP’s Bihar unit president Sanjay Jayaswal announced about Shah’s digital rally, Tejashwi told reporters at his residence at Patna that BJP and the ruling NDA government is “power- hungry” and they are not concerned about the plight of migrant workers in Bihar.
“The number of Covid-19 infected persons has surged up to 2 lakh and migrant laborers hailing from Bihar have been worst affected by the crisis. The migrant workers are dying due to hunger. Should BJP, as ruling party, be concerned about virtual rallies or poor people dying of hunger? BJP is not concerned about the poor and they are only thinking about elections and votes,” Tejashwi said
He added: “BJP has announced virtual rally in Bihar on June 9 and celebrate “death of poor people”. However, RJD will also observe the same day as Garib Adhikar Diwas. We will observe the day for showing solidarity with the poor, migrant workers, laborers and farmers and, raising their voice. It will also showcase our protest against the government for neglecting the poor and thinking about elections in the midst of this crisis.”
Criticizing BJP’s proposed digital rally, Tejashwi said that “hunger for power” has prompted them to organize the rally but people of Bihar and the opposition want to know from them what they are doing for addressing the plight of returnee migrants.
“BJP functionary is health minister in Bihar. They should talk about how many additional ventilators they got and how they ensure travel and food for poor migrants. Double- engine government of BJP and JD (U) was not visible at all on all these fronts. RJD, on the other hand, provided rationed food to 1 lakh migrants using its limited resources,” Tejashwi said.
The younger Yadav scion also demanded from the state government to tell people of Bihar explain their plan for reviving the state’s economy and providing livelihood opportunities to returnee migrant.
Meanwhile, reacting to Tejashwi’s remark, BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand said that the former is suffering from “BJP- phobia” and it is not an election rally. “Virtual rally is meant for mass online communication and interaction. Union minister Amit Shah ji will give his message to BJP party workers in Bihar about service to society and nation. Thus, it clear that it is not an election rally but only a medium to boost the party workers in fighting this Corona crisis,” Nikhil said.
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Incarcerated RJD chief Lalu Prasad also took on to Twitter on Monday to launch a scathing attack on ruling NDA government led by JD (U) national president Nitish Kumar. He appealed to bring back the rule of “poor and downtrodden” in Bihar.
“There has been rule of deception, failure, fruitlessness, chaos, immorality, betrayal and bad- governance from last 15 years. Wipe them out and bring the rule of poor and downtrodden,” Lalu tweeted. Lalu is serving jail sentence in multi- crore fodder scam cases and official Twitter handle is being handled by his family and close aides with his consultation.