New Delhi:Setting the tone for Bihar assembly polls, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the state moved from “jungle raj to janta raj” during the NDA rule and expressed confidence that the alliance will get a two-third majority in the state elections under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s leadership.
Shah’s statement at a first of its kind ‘virtual rally’, in which he addressed the people of the state from the national capital using internet and broadcast mediums, will scotch whatever speculation there might have been over Kumar’s stewardship as a section of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance leaders had been questioning his leadership.
“Elections are around the corner in Bihar. I am confident that the NDA will form the government under Nitish Kumar’s leadership with a two-third majority,” the senior BJP leader said in the address.
With opposition parties attacking the BJP for holding the rally at a time when coronavirus infection numbers continue to surge, Shah took pains to delink the exercise with Bihar poll campaign, saying it is one of the 75 virtual public meetings that the party has organised for ‘Jan Samvad’ (public dialogue) after the completion of the first year of the Modi government’s second term.
It is aimed at connecting people with the fight against the coronavirus and with the government’s ‘Aatmnirbhar Bharat’ (self-reliant India) campaign as the BJP believes in public dialogue, he said.
His speech was interspersed with digs at opposition leaders. (PTI)
