Bihar Elections: ‘Den of infiltrators…’; Amit Shah’s BIG attack on Mahagathbandhan, says Rahul, Tejashwi will make Seemanchal…
Bihar Assembly Election: In a scathing attack on the opposition INDIA bloc, known as the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, Union Home Minister alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the opposition alliance’s Chief Ministerial candidate, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, were “hell-bent” on turning the state’s Seemanchal region, which has a significant population of Muslims, into a “den of infiltrators”.
What did Amit Shah say?
Addressing back-to-back rallies in Bihar’s Purnea and Katihar on Saturday, Amit Shah asserted the Narendra Modi government will detect and identify every illegal immigrant, delete their names from electoral rolls and deport them.
“Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav are hell-bent on turning the Seemanchal region of Bihar into a den of infiltrators… We will detect and identify every illegal immigrant, delete their names from electoral rolls and deport them to their country,” said Shah.
Ramping up his attack on the opposition alliance, Amit Shah said RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi were worried about their sons, Tejashwi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi, respectively, while asserting that no seats were vacant for them either in Bihar or Delhi.
‘People have already shown them the door’
Taking a jibe at Tejashwi Yadav, the INDIA bloc’s CM face for Bihar, Shah said, “I agree with Tejashwi that Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t do in ‘seven births’ what Lalu did… He can’t indulge in multiple scams.”
The Home Minister expressed confidence that the incumbent NDA will retain power in Bihar by securing over 160 seats in the 243-member House, and claimed that half of the state has “already shown the door” to the opposition alliance, referring to the first phase of the polls held on November 6.
“Half of the state has already shown the door to the Congress-RJD combine,” Shah claimed.
Phase-1 records highest turnout in Bihar’s history
Bihar Assembly Election is being held in two phases for the 243-member state assembly. On Saturday, the Election Commission said the first phase, held on November 6, recorded a 65.08 per cent, the highest in the state’s history.
A total of 3.75 crore people were eligible to cast their votes at 45,341 polling stations, including 36,733 in rural areas, on November 6 to decide the electoral fate of 1,314 candidates, of whom 1,192 are men and 122 women, the apex poll authority said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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