RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family on Monday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for labelling the Opposition as “anti-Sanatan” and raising the “400-paar” slogan without factoring in the issues faced by the common people.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks continuously about ‘400 paar’ (winning more than 400 Lok Sabha seats), but never talks about jobs or employment, students and youths, farmers or labourers, villages or the poor, education or health, schools or hospitals,” RJD leader and Lalu’s youngest son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav said in Patna.
“So on what issue will the public of this country vote for him? If Modiji does not talk about issues, then forget 400 seats, he will not be able to cross even 100 seats. Therefore, Modi nahin, mudde ki baat honi chahiye (issues should be discussed instead of Modi),” Tejashwi added.
He asked why the “double-engine government” and 10 years of BJP rule at the Centre had failed to set up factories in Bihar, stop the migration of people, eliminate poverty or bring down inflation.
Lalu’s eldest daughter and Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti, contesting from the Pataliputra Lok Sabha seat for the third time, put Modi on the mat for labelling the Opposition as “anti-Sanatan” and opposed to the Ram temple.
“The Ram temple constructed in Ayodhya is not of Modiji or the BJP. We are also Hindu and Sanatani and worship God. We are busy, but will take out time and go for darshan of Lord Ram. Will anybody stop us?” she said while campaigning.
Misa claimed that the RJD and the Mahagathbandhan had performed well while in government, raised the issues plaguing the common man and given jobs.
Misa termed the “400-paar” slogan dangerous. “Their (BJP) thoughts are very harmful. They want to destroy the Constitution of this country and take away the rights of the people. The people, especially those of Bihar, are seeing everything and I am sure that they will do away with Narendra Modiji,” she added.
She also raised the gang rape and murder of a minor girl in Muzaffarpur district last week and said no leader from the ruling dispensation in the state visited the victim’s family.
Canvassing in the Saran constituency, Lalu’s second daughter Rohini Acharya attacked the BJP as a party that indulged in tall talk. “Chief minister Nitish Kumar has taken refuge with people habituated to boasting. That’s why he talked about winning 4,000 seats in the Lok Sabha instead of 400.”
