Modi slams 'glorification' of guns in RJD campaign
BETTIAH/PATNA, Nov. 9 -- Asserting that people in developing Bihar are benefitting from their increasing purchasing power, but the parties like Rashtriya Janata Dal are still sowing seeds of poison in young minds by glorifying culture of dunali (double-barreled gun), katta (country-made one-shot pistol) and rangdari (extortion), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday exhorted people to defeat the people with "poisoned mindset" who are selling decadence in their poll campaigns.
The PM said this while addressing election rallies in Sitamarhi and Bettiah on Saturday, concluding his campaign for Bihar polls that will see second and final phase voting on November 11.
"People are not voting for jungle raj wallahs because they know if these people come to power they will hold a katta at the head of the public with the order to hold hands up. People of Bihar do not want hands up but start ups, which only the NDA can facilitate," he said.
"What the RJD people want to do for the children of Bihar is clearly evident in the election campaigns of their leaders. Just listen to the songs of these jungle raj people and their slogans. You will shudder at what they think, what they say. On RJD platforms, innocent children are being made to say that they want to become "rangdar" (extortionist). I shudder to hear that the RJD, in its campaign, is wishing children to become. Bihar definitely does not want a government which has 'katta', 'kushasan' (misgovernance), 'kroorta' (cruelty) and corruption to offer," he added.
He asked, "Should children become rangdar? Can Bihar approve it?"
He sought to refresh the memories of Lalu-Rabri rule. "Those who promoted the 'jungle raj' turned this land of Champaran satyagrah into a den of dacoits and lathayts (musclemen). Women found it difficult to step outside their houses. When the rule of law ends, extortion begins," he said alluding to the rise of Lalu Yadav to power in early 1990s.
Although the Prime Minister refrained from mentioning leaders of the RJD and the Congress by names, he made ample references to "royal families" running these, "one most corrupt in the country" and the other "most corrupt in Bihar".
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi was lampooned as a "Congress ke naamdaar" who was "practising drowning", a tongue in cheek reference to Gandhi's jumping into a muddy pond last week to interact with fishermen.
Gandhi's allegation of "vote theft" was dismissed as "net practice for finding excuse, following a defeat in Bihar", while his criticism of Modi's aborted plan to take a dip in Yamuna on Chhath was called an "insult" to the most popular festival of the state.
The PM, whose penultimate rally was at Sitamarhi. He referred to the Punaura Dham project in Sitamarhi, the birthplace of Goddess Sita, as an example of the NDA's regard for "heritage (Virasat)" and lambasted the "naamdaar of Congress" for "insulting the faith of mothers and sisters by calling Chhath festival a drama, a nautanki".
He alleged that reluctance of INDIA bloc leaders to visit Ayodhya, which housed not just the Ram temple but also shrines dedicated to Maharshi Valmiki, Mata Shabri and Nishad Raj was on account of their "hatred for Dalits and backwards".
The Opposition coalition was also repeatedly charged by the PM with "protecting infiltrators", driving them out was, according to the government at the Centre, the aim of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that was completed in the state days before polls were announced.
Expressing delight over the high voter turnout in the first phase of elections two days ago, when, according to the Election Commission, 65.08 percent of electors had exercised their franchise. He claimed that people have given the opposition INDIA bloc a "65-volt jhatka" in the first phase of assembly elections in Bihar, and now they are spending "sleepless nights"....
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