Patna, Oct. 3: BJP president Amit Shah today tried to galvanise party supporters and also attacked RJD chief Lalu Prasad and chief minister Nitish Kumar.
He was addressing the conference of regional workers at Sanjay Gandhi Stadium here in which supporters from 34 Assembly constituencies had gathered. Shah claimed that the BJP-led NDA would win the Assembly elections with two-thirds majority and the Grand Alliance would get negligible number of seats.
"Is it possible for Nitish to develop the state carrying Lalu on one shoulder and the Congress on the other? The 15 years of Lalu's regime witnessed murder, rape, dacoity and loot. Similarly, the Congress regime brought corruption and Emergency. The BJP has a good track record wherever we have formed governments. Be it Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat or many others. So in Bihar also, the BJP is the only alternative," said Shah, raising both his hands in air.
"As part of the strategy, Shah is camping in the state till the election process is over. He is conducting workers' meets to interact with them so that they can pass on the message to the grassroots level. He has already conducted workers' meets at Begusarai and Aurangabad, before addressing the workers in Patna. He had concluded another workers' meet in Purnea in the morning.
Workers from Patna's neighbouring Assembly constituencies were invited, where polling would take place in the third phase. In the presence of Bihar BJP election in-charge Ananth Kumar, the workers showed their unity by chanting slogans of Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Few more workers meets would be organised in Muzaffarpur, Supaul, Kishanganj and Katihar in the coming days. Shah did not miss the opportunity to remind of the old days, when the BJP was in alliance with the JDU and called Nitish "an arrogant and opportunistic" person.
"BJP workers were humiliated by Nitish. Despite that we supported him. However, being an arrogant and opportunistic person, he backstabbed the BJP and joined hands with Lalu," said Shah, adding that employment opportunities would be generated in Bihar.
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Narendra Singh Tomar were also present on the dais apart from BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, BJP national general secretary (organisation), Ram Lal and Bihar BJP state unit president Mangal Pandey.
