Patna, March 3 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the Congress-RJD combine in Bihar, charging it with using Dalits and other deprived sections of the society as a "shield to justify their dynastic politics and corruption".

Addressing a rally in Begusarai district of the state, Modi also made veiled references to the land-for-jobs scam, pertaining to RJD president Lalu Prasad's tenure as the railway minister in the previous UPA government. He alleged that the Congress-RJD combine was guilty of "betrayal of social justice".

The PM also asserted that social uplift was brought about by his government which worked for the progress of all. Modi, who spoke in the presence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...