Patna, Sept. 10 -- Ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Wednesday hit out at the opposition's Mahagathbandhan for promoting schemes that would provide financial assistance to women, accusing them of "propagating lies".

"This has been the history of RJD, Tejashwi Yadav, Congress and Ghamandia alliance to spread confusion and lies. They have not formed a government. The Mahagathbandhan government, which remained in power here for 15 years, the government of the parents of Tejashwi Yadav did nothing," Union MoS Rai told reporters here.

Labelling the exercise of opposition parties asking women in Bihar to fill forms for their schemes as "deceit", Rai said that people...