Patna, Nov 9 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his scheduled visit to Bihar on November 21, asserting that he should have come to the state during the floods in September.
Modi is likely to visit Bihar’s Vaishali district to inaugurate projects related to an industrial corridor and address a rally.
“The Prime Minister is visiting Bihar now, but we had invited him way back during the floods in the state. He should have come then… The reality is that the state’s coffers under the double-engine government are empty, and criminals are calling the shots,” Yadav told reporters here.
The RJD working president was speaking on the sidelines of his birthday celebrations at the party headquarters in Patna.
He alleged that incidents of shooting, atrocities against women, and crime in general were being reported regularly, while the government was “neglecting” issues related to education, healthcare, unemployment and inflation.
Yadav, the Leader of Opposition in the assembly, also vowed to resist any attempt to undermine democracy or tinker with the Constitution.
“There are forces that want to crush democracy and alter the Constitution. We will teach them a lesson. If need be, we will take to the streets. Our dream is to see Bihar become a developed state free from unemployment, poverty, inflation, corruption and crime,” he asserted.
Yadav also emphasised the need to take the idea of social justice and secularism to every section of the society.
Asked about a post on X by Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi in which he remarked that “rebellion and revolution have now become the duty of patriots”, Yadav said “people will definitely come out on the streets to defend democracy and the Constitution”.
“Nobody should have the audacity to play with the country’s democracy,” the RJD leader added. PTI SUK RBT
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