Bihar elections 2025: Tejashwi Yadav bagged CM candidate post at gunpoint, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday claimed that the Congress was ldquonever willingrdquo to accept Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate but acceded to the demand when the RJD put a ldquokattardquo countrymade gun on its headDuring a rally in Arrah district Modi predicted a record victory for the ruling NDA which would continue providing a government that was ldquouprightrdquo and ldquoforesightedrdquo and build a ldquodeveloped Biharrdquo that was necessary for ldquoViksit BharatrdquoldquoThe Congress never wanted to announce the chief ministerial candidate in favour of the RJD The RJD secured it by placing a katta countrymade pistol on the head of the Congress After the elections the two alliance partners will be breaking each otherrsquos heads Such elements can never do good for Biharrdquo he allegedThe PM who was visibly pleased with the huge turnout said ldquoThe youngsters here have filled me with enthusiasm Analysts sitting in Delhi who are racking their brains over poll arithmetic would do well to come here and experience for themselves which way the wind is blowingrdquoldquorsquoJungle raj wallahsrsquo are set to get the worst drubbing in history The people of Bihar have not forgotten the lsquojungle rajrsquordquo he claimed The PM said the manifesto released by the NDA last week was ldquohonestrdquo and put forth a ldquovisionrdquo for the future unlike the charter of promises of the INDIA bloc which was ldquoa dossier of liesrdquoNoting that Bhojpur and adjoining districts were known for providing a large number of recruits in the armed forces he said national security and those who ensure it are of paramount importance to his governmentldquoOne rank one pension OROP has resulted in the disbursement of Rs 1 lakh crore which is benefitting families of servicemenrdquo he said The PM said it was ldquoModirsquos guaranteerdquo that Article 370 would be scrapped and it has been with the Constitution of India now in force in Jammu and KashmirlsquoRecurrence of jungle rajrsquoUnion Home Minister Amit Shah vowed to make Bihar free from floods if the NDA retains power and claimed that the INDIA bloc would create ldquothree portfolios of murder kidnapping and extortionrdquo if the opposition alliance gets a chance to form a government in the state Addressing election rallies in Muzaffarpur and Vaishali Shah appealed to electors to ldquocast votes to prevent the return of lsquojungle rajrsquo that saw kidnappings murders atrocitiesrdquolsquoRemotecontrolled PMrsquoCongress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Modi was ldquoremote controlledrdquo by big business Gandhi the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that all the major decisions of the Modi government like GST and demonetisation were ldquoaimed at destroying small businesses and benefiting the big onesrdquo adding ldquohe is being remotecontrolled by Ambani and AdanirdquoJDUrsquos Anant Singh held in murder caseA Patna court on Sunday remanded JDU candidate from Mokama seat Anant Singh and his two associates to 14day judicial custody in connection with the murder of Jan Suraaj Party supporter Dular Chand YadavAnant Singh PicPTISingh a former Bihar MLA and his two aides Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram who were arrested earlier on Sunday in connection with Yadavrsquos murder were produced before the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate CJM in Patna ldquoThe court sent Singh and two others to judicial custody for two weeksrdquo his lawyer Naveen Kumar told reportersFrom the court they were taken to Patnarsquos Beur Jail Singh had been under the scanner since the death of Yadav who had recently clashed with the former MLArsquos supporters and the JDU candidate was picked up from his house in Barh about 200 km from the state capital PatnaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever