Gopalganj/Patna, Mar 30 (UNI) Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday asked people of Bihar, not to allow return of "Jungle Raj " in the state and vote for formation of the NDA government again in the assembly elections later this year.
Addressing a rally organised by his party here, Shah said people of Bihar had not forgotten the
"Jungle Raj " during the RJD regime for 15 long years since 1990. He asked them not to allow the return of "Jungle Raj " and instead ensure the NDA government retained power in the October-November polls.
"RJD regime was marred by a series of scams including flood relief scam, coaltar scam and fodder scam ", the BJP stalwart said, mentioning thatincidents of loot, kidnapping, murder and crimes were the order of the day during the RJD regime.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad had no concern for the people of Bihar and he remained engaged only in settling his own family members including wife, sons and daughters, he said.
"Both sons of Lalu were Ministers in Bihar and now they are MLAs, wife Rabri Devi was Chief Minister of Bihar, a daughter is Rajya Sabha MP while another daughter had contested Lok Sabha elections last year", Shah said.
Continuing his attack on Lalu, he said the RJD supremo was himself a Minister in the Sonia- Manmohan government but did nothing for Bihar. Only 2.80 lakh crore was given by the Centre to Bihar when Lalu was Minister in the Sonia-Manmohan Singh government which was in power for ten years, he pointed out.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was voted to power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, his government had given Rs 9.23 lakh crores to Bihar in ten years since 2014, he stated.
The former BJP chief said the RJD regime in Bihar was also infamous for incidents of booth capturing by its leaders. Complete "Jungle Raj" had prevailed as there was no freedom for the people to cast their votes freely and fearlessly, he added.
Shah said Lalu used to say, "What is IT YT " making a mockery of changes taking place in science and technology. Lalu also used to ridicule, whether computers could give milk, he recalled
Earlier addressing a function organised by the cooperative department in Patna to launch several government schemes, Shah said, "During the RJD regime, all sugar mills were closed down due to mismanagement and corruption.".
He said a closed sugar mill was re-opened and it started functioning properly after intervention and support from Narendra Modi government. If NDA was voted to power again after next Bihar Assembly elections,the Narendra Modi government would ensure opening of many other sugar mills in the state, he added.
Shah said Bihar was number one in the production of mushroom, makhana and litchi. Bihar stood second in the cultivation of maize which would get a further boost with fresh assistance of the Centre, he stressed.
The powerful minister said Bihar had a share of more than 30 percent in sugar production of the country which got reduced to less than 6 percent due to corruption and mismanagement of RJD regime.
The Modi government was providing all assistance to Bihar to tap its vast agriculture potential and increase the agro produce benefiting farmers of the state, he added. UNI KKS SSP