Tejashwi calls PM’s infiltration remarks ‘diversionary tactics’ ahead of Bihar polls

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using infiltration as a diversionary issue ahead of Bihar polls, claiming the NDA has failed on governance, jobs, education, and healthcare. He vowed the INDIA bloc would defeat the ruling alliance

Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fulminations against infiltration in Bihar were “diversionary tactics” ahead of the assembly elections in the state.

Yadav was asked to comment on the PM’s speech at a rally in Purnea a day ago, when the opposition party was charged with “shielding and defending” infiltrators. The PM had also asserted that infiltration led to a “demographic crisis” and left the common people “worried about the honour of their sisters and daughters.”

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Yadav, whose party is immensely popular among the minorities, said, “Let us, for a moment, assume that there are infiltrators in Bihar. Then the question arises, what have you (Modi) been doing all along? You have been in power for 11 years. Besides, you (BJP-led NDA) have been ruling the state for 20 years.”

The leader of the opposition in the Bihar assembly wondered if the ruling dispensation has been able to identify a single infiltrator in Bihar. “I must point out that it is a bogey they had similarly raised in Jharkhand last year when assembly polls were underway there. Now they have forgotten about that,” Yadav claimed.

The former Deputy CM alleged, “The issue of infiltration is raised as a diversionary tactic. The NDA realises its failure in providing good governance, ensuring that people had jobs, education, health care, and their grievances were quickly and effectively redressed.”

He also claimed that the INDIA bloc will “defeat the NDA in the polls”. “We will form a government that ensures ‘padhaai’, ‘dawaai’, ‘kamaai’, ‘sunwaai’, and ‘karwaai’ (education, medicines, jobs, grievance redressal, and taking measures to resolve issues). I am starting Bihar Adhikar Yatra with this very message”, the RJD leader added.