PATNA: BJP national general secretary and the party’s Bihar incharge Bhupender Yadav on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the Mahagathbandhan comprising RJD, Congress, and the three Left parties calling it an “unholy alliance”. He dubbed CPI(ML) as “extreme Left” and said it has taken “complete control” of RJD.
Yadav also attacked the RJD’s CM face Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who is leading the Grand Alliance in the three-phase assembly election in the absence of his father and party chief Lalu Prasad.
“The RJD is a party that has weak leadership. Now, it has come under complete control of the CPI(ML),” the saffron party’s Bihar incharge said, alluding to Tejashwi, and also added that the CPI(ML) “promoted class struggle in the state that led to bloody fight among people”.
It is popularly believed that under Lalu’s dominance amid the rise of “Mandal-Kamandal politics”, the Left parties were marginalized in the state.
The CPI(ML) is contesting 19 assembly seats, CPI six, and CPM three. In 2015, three CPI(ML) candidates were elected to the state assembly, while CPI had its hey days till the 1995 assembly election when Bihar and Jharkhand were united.
“What kind of class struggle do the RJD-Congress want to start by taking the CPI(ML) along with them. The extreme Left is trying to spread itself in the state by allying with RJD,” Bhupender said, alleging that the RJD has been “going around taking the Left on its shoulders,” when Bihar “has been on peaceful path due to the JD(U)-BJP alliance” for the last 15 years.
Bhupender was accompanied by the party’s state president Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal and BJP MP-cum-Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari.
Continuing his attack on RJD, Bhupender said it cheated its four partners — former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha, VIP chief Mukesh Sahani, while the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has alleged that RJD “does not practice political ethics”.
On the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Dr Jaiswal said during the 15-year “Lalu-Rabri rule,” Champaran had 250 criminal gangs. “It seems the RJD and the grand alliance partners want to repeat the same history, as they have given tickets to such people to contest the election,” he added.
He further said that PM Narendra Modi has given power and gas connection to every “poor household,” and also eight-month free ration due to the coronavirus pandemic.
BJP poll song released: The state BJP brass, along with the party’s MP from Delhi and Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari, digitally launched the “Modi Ji (PM Modi) Leher Song” and also the e-kamal website. The party’s national media co-incharge Sanjay Mayukh conducted the programme.
The song has voice, feet thumping and swings by the Bhojpuri film singer and star Nirahua. “People of Bihar are familiar with whatever thing the song says. Youths and sisters in the state can believe that what Modi Ji says, he does it,” Tiwari said.