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In the run-up to the Bihar Assembly elections, elder Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person and Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a crisp onslaught connected the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress connected Saturday (October 25, 2025), informing that ‘Jungle Raj’ would instrumentality to the State if the parties were voted to power. Mr. Shah reiterated that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was contesting elections nether the enactment of Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Mr. Shah was successful Bihar to code nationalist meetings successful Khagaria, Munger and Nalanda districts to screen 13 Assembly constituencies successful enactment of NDA candidates. He besides wished the radical of Bihar connected the State’s biggest festival, the ‘Chhath’, that began with the Nahay Khay connected Saturday.
“I privation to widen my champion wishes for Chhath Mahaparv to each the radical of Bihar. I commune to Chhath Maiya that our Bihar remains escaped from ‘Jungle Raj’ forever, and instrumentality and bid stay strong. Our sisters and daughters should stay harmless and Bihar should progresses to go a developed State,”Mr. Shah said.
Addressing a rally successful Khagaria, Mr. Shah asserted that this predetermination was not astir making idiosyncratic an MLA, Minister, oregon Chief Minister; rather, it was astir choosing betwixt Jungle Raj oregon the regularisation of development.
In Munger, the Union Home Minister alleged that during the RJD’s rule, murder, robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and massacres were regular affairs, with industries fleeing the State. Mr. Shah added that nether the enactment of Nitish Kumar, the NDA freed Bihar from Jungle Raj, ended dynastic authorities and eliminated Naxalism.
He pointed retired that the punctual functioning of schools and colleges, the availability of medicines, the irrigation of cultivation fields, and the proviso of h2o successful each location were portion of the NDA policy. RJD person Tejashwi Yadav had raised these points from time 1 since taking complaint arsenic the Opposition leader.
“On the different hand, the Grand Alliance has 2 identities — corruption and nepotism. Nitish Babu wants to beforehand the sons and daughters of Bihar, portion Lalu Ji wants to marque his lad the Chief Minister, and Sonia Gandhi wants to marque her lad the Prime Minister,”Mr. Shah said.
He accused the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, of being “sympathetic to infiltrators” and wanting to “host them” successful the State. “I committedness that if you ballot for the NDA government, we volition propulsion retired each azygous infiltrator from the country,”Mr. Shah said.
“If Lalu-Rabri came back, past Jungle Raj volition instrumentality successful Bihar, and if Narendra Modi and Nitish Babu came, past our Bihar volition determination guardant again,”Mr. Shah said.
In Nalanda, helium appealed to the radical to ballot for NDA candidates truthful arsenic to signifier an NDA authorities with a two-thirds majority. “You person fixed blessings for 20 years. Give your blessings for different 5 years, and we volition marque Bihar a developed State,”Mr. Shah said.
Praising the Union government, Mr. Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi restored the glory of Nalanda’s practice by rebuilding the Nalanda University aft it as destroyed by Turkish invader Bakhtiyar Khilji.
He besides said that, dissimilar the tenure of the RJD, erstwhile elections were held successful six phases owed to law-and-order issues, elections happened successful 2 phases nether Mr. Modi and Mr. Nitish. Mr. Shah expressed assurance astir holding elections successful 1 signifier successful the future.
Calling Bihar a harmless place, the BJP person said successful examination to 2005, determination was a 20% alteration successful murders successful 2024, an 80% alteration successful robbery incidents, an 80% alteration successful extortion incidents, and determination has been nary massacre successful the State for the past 10 years.
On the different hand, Union Minister and BJP predetermination in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan reacted to the Opposition’s query to sanction the CM-face of the NDA. Mr. Pradhan, portion speaking successful Darbhanga, said, “We bash not person a vacancy for the CM station arsenic Nitish Kumar has occupied the presumption for the past 20 years. Since they (INDIA bloc) bash not person that advantage, they are making the demand.”
