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Arrah: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday mounted a scathing attack on RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav by accusing him of not working towards the welfare of backward classes nor the people belonging to his caste ‘Yadav’.
Amit Shah’s remarks came while he was addressing an election rally in support of senior BJP leader and Union Minister R K Singh in Arrah. The Union Home Minister said if Prasad, as part of the “arrogant” INDI bloc, comes to power, “jungle raj, abduction, and gang war will return to Bihar“.
“People don’t want the return of ‘jungle raj’, gang war and abduction industry in Bihar. Lalu neither worked for the welfare of backward classes nor the people belonging to his own caste ‘Yadav’. They are under the wrong impression that Lalu works for them,” news agency PTI quoting the BJP leader as saying.
Shah accused Prasad of promoting only his children.
“Lalu Ji allowed his two sons to become ministers, sent one daughter to Rajya Sabha, and another is contesting the Lok Sabha polls. He made his wife the chief minister of Bihar….He promotes only his sons and daughters. He can’t think for the welfare of people belonging to his own caste,” Shah added.
He accused the Congress and the RJD of “trying to rob reservation from the quotas of SCs, STs and OBCs and give such benefits to Muslims”.
“The NDA under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji will not allow this to happen. Congress, Lalu Prasad and Mamata Banerjee are against reservations to backward classes,” he alleged.
“They have been exposed”, he said, referring to a Calcutta High Court order that cancelled OBC certificates issued by the state govt since 2010.
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday termed as illegal the OBC status of several classes in West Bengal granted since 2010, sparking a political debate amid the Lok Sabha elections.
The court observed that the inclusion of 77 classes of Muslims in the list of backward categories was to “treat them as a vote bank” Shah also said, “If CPI-ML (Liberation) candidate wins from Arrah Lok Sabha seat, Naxalism will once again return to Bihar.” RK Singh, as a BJP candidate, is seeking re-election from the Arrah Lok Sabha constituency, while CPI-ML (Liberation) nominated Sudama Prasad as a ‘Mahagathbandhan’ candidate.
Voting will take place in Arrah on June 1.
(With PTI inputs)
