Patna: Lalu Yadav’s challenge for the October 30 bypolls in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch can get him “shot”, but “can’t do anything else”.
In a video shared by news agency ANI, Kumar is seen speaking to reporters. Asked about Lalu Yadav’s remark that he has returned to Patna to ensure the “visarjan” — immersion — of Mr Kumar and the ruling NDA in the bypolls, the Chief Minister started laughing. “If he wants, he can get me shot, he cannot do anything else,” he said.
This comes after RJD Chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday said that he is back and will contest elections in Bihar. “I have managed to come back because of people’s love,” said Lalu Prasad Yadav. He said that he has missed two election due to health conditions and detention.
While speaking to ANI, RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said: “I was unwell and was in detention because of which I missed two elections, but now bye elections are happening and I have managed to come back because of people’s love.”
The leader added that on October 27, he will address the public in the bypoll seats of Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur.
Speaking on the alliance with Congress, Lalu Prasad said: “An alliance is formed with like-minded people and secular forces. At state-level also, we formed an alliance with Congress, Left and other parties.
The leader added that on October 27, he will address the public in the bypoll seats of Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur.
Speaking on the alliance with Congress, Lalu Prasad said: “An alliance is formed with like-minded people and secular forces. At state-level also, we formed an alliance with Congress, Left and other parties.
RJD chief Lalu Yadav added that “Nitish Kumar has been eulogised …PM Modi, BJP would know… Everyone was sloganeering ‘A PM should be like Nitish’… He was being touted as PM material…such arrogance and greed.”
The leader also took a jibe at the BJP and said that fuel prices are soaring while diesel is costlier than ghee. “How will people cook without kadwa tel (mustard oil),” asked RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, while speaking to ANI.
The BJP-JDU alliance has pinned its campaign for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election on the 15-year “misrule” of Lalu Prasad’s RJD. Lalu Prasad dominated the electoral politics of Bihar from 1990 to 2005 when he and his wife Rabri Devi alternatively served as Bihar chief minister
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