PATNA, May 20 -- As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched tiranga yatra to celebrate the success of 'Operation Sindoor' across Bihar, the opposition parties, including the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have planned counter-offensive to expose the strategic lacunas in the operation among the masses ahead of the assembly elections. All parties have notched up campaigning, raising different issues to woo the electors in their favour ahead of the state polls, due in Oct-Nov. "The BJP, which always banked on the issues of nationalism and religious polarisation to garner the majority votes, wants to set the public discourse on its favourable topics to divert people's attention from the real issues. The issues of national security and Hindu Rashtravaad have proved to be a success story for the BJP," said a retired professor of Patna University Rama Shanakar Arya. On Sunday, deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Samrat Chaudhary and state BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal led the party's Tiranga Yatra in the state capital and reiterated to take out similar yatras across all districts to celebrate the success of Operation Sindoor. The Congress party and the RJD blamed the Narendra Modi government for forcing war with Pakistan to cover up its failure in stopping killings of innocent people in Pahalgam. "People of this country are well aware that the Central government used the defence forces to bolster its electoral politics. The external affairs minister has acknowledged how our defence forces were made vulnerable to counter attack from Pakistan," said media department head of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) Rajesh Kumar Rathore. RJD chief spokesman Shakti Singh Yadav also made serious allegations on the BJP government for launching Operation Sindoor for political gains. "People of Bihar will not forgive the BJP and JDU dispensation for playing with the national sentiments.India has never accepted any third-party mediation in the war between India and Pakistan. But Narendra Modi bowed down to US President Donald Trump and thereby bruised national pride," said Yadav, adding that the party had proposed a block-level campaign to expose how the PM had sacrificed the national interest to serve his political aspirations. Rathore and Yadav said that the ruling dispensation in Bihar is desperate to change the discourse as it's sure to face the people's wrath on the issue of caste-based census, raising the bar of reservation, and ensuring reservation for the deprived sections in private institutions and jobs - all of which have stirred massive public debate. "BJP and the JDU are scared of the issues our leader Rahul Gandhi is raking up. This was why the state administration made an abortive bid to stop him from meeting the students of Ambedkar Hostel in Darbhanga," added Rathore....