BJP leaders and workers held a silent protest on Saturday in Patna, near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Gandhi Maidan, to condemn the inappropriate remarks made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participants wore black bands on their hands. Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, leading the protest, stated that the people of Bihar would not tolerate insults to a mother. He demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav. He questioned whether insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother was considered proper conduct.
Minister Nitin Naveen said that the people of Bihar would not tolerate the insult of a mother. BJP workers are not afraid of any oppression and the struggle against the insult of a mother will continue. National Minister Rituraj Sinha said that the use of abusive language against the Prime Minister’s late mother, even from a public platform, has shamed the entire Bihar. This is not the culture of Bihar, where mothers are revered. We worship Chhathi Maiya.
MP Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal said that the language used against the Prime Minister’s mother was highly condemnable. He said that Bihar’s history has never been one of disrespecting women, and the people of Bihar and the country would respond to this. Former MP Ramkripal Yadav said that this is not just an insult to PM Modi’s mother, but a comment against every mother in the country, which cannot be tolerated. This has shamed the entire Bihar. This cannot be tolerated. By observing silence, we are sending a message that the character of the Congress has never improved and will never improve.
Rajya Sabha MP Dharmshila Gupta, MLAs Arun Kumar Sinha, Anil Sharma, State General Secretary Radha Mohan Sharma, Rajesh Verma, and a large number of party officials and workers were present at the silent protest.
Bihar Pradesh RJD spokesperson Ejaz Ahmad strongly reacted to the BJP’s silent protest, stating that everyone knows how much the BJP leaders have used indecent and abusive language. He questioned the language used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speeches, such as DNA, calling Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi a Congress widow, Mamata Banerjee ‘Didi o Didi’, those who would snatch mangalsutras, those who produce more children, those who will occupy your land, infiltrators, and the use of mujra-like language. He also asked why they were silent when BJP MLA Janak Singh used derogatory language against Tejashwi Yadav’s mother and sister in the Bihar Assembly. He stated that the BJP’s identity has been abusive and culturally inappropriate.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a massive public gathering on the 14th day of the Voter Rights Yatra in Ara, along with Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal, CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, VIP founder Mukesh Sahani, and Congress State President Rajesh Ram.
Rahul Gandhi strongly criticized the BJP and the Election Commission for the attack on the constitution through vote theft. He said that the BJP had stolen the Lok Sabha elections as well as the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections. He mentioned the SIR and said that the India alliance will not allow vote theft in Bihar. He also said that this government is snatching opportunities from the youth by privatizing the public sector and bringing schemes like Agniveer.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) held a joint workers’ conference in various assembly constituencies including Harsidhi, Kodha, Gopalganj, and Sitamarhi on Saturday. The leaders of the NDA constituent parties not only boosted the morale of the workers through the workers’ conference but also claimed to form the government again. All said in one voice that this year’s assembly elections, not only will we win, but we will create history by winning more than 225 seats.
In this workers’ conference, BJP State President Dr. Dilip Jaiswal and Minister Nitish Mishra boosted the morale of the workers in Harsidhi, while Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary and Minister Hari Sahani in Kodha, MP Dharmshila Gupta and Anil Sharma in Gopalganj, and Union Minister Nityanand Rai and Minister Nitin Naveen filled the workers with enthusiasm in Sitamarhi.
In addition, MP Sanjay Jaiswal, Ravi Shankar Prasad in Bakhtiyarpur, Minister Mangal Pandey and MP Ashok Yadav in Aurai, Union Minister Giriraj Singh and Minister Renu Devi in Rajnagar participated in the workers’ conference.
Union Minister Rajbhushan Nishad and Minister Neeraj Kumar Bablu in Bajpatti, Vinod Narayan Jha and Prem Ranjan Patel in Paliganj, Minister Janak Ram and Tarkishore Prasad in Thakurganj assembly constituency addressed the workers in the workers’ conference, while Minister Neeraj Singh Bablu and Lakhinder Paswan in Singheshwar, Minister Prem Kumar Jamalpur, MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain in Haralakhi and Minister Santosh Singh and MP Janardan Singh Sigriwal addressed the joint workers’ conference in the Nokha assembly.
Vikassheel Insaan Party founder and former Bihar minister Mukesh Sahani said on Saturday that this Voter Rights Yatra is not just a journey to protect voting rights, it is the beginning of change in Bihar and the country. The support that people are getting in this journey is clear evidence that the people of the state and the country now want change.
Addressing a public meeting in Ara, Mukesh Sahani said that our ancestors fought against the British and liberated the country. After this, democracy came in the country and the country was given a constitution. Today, the RSS and BJP are looking to end the rights of the poor, Dalits, and the backward classes. He said that now these people are trying to steal votes in Bihar. He warned the people that when the right to vote is gone, we will have nothing.
Mukesh Sahani emphasized that we will not allow vote theft in Bihar under any circumstances. The beginning of many revolutions in the country has started from Bihar and once again, the campaign to stop vote theft will start from Bihar.
Bihar Janata Dal (U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha in a statement issued on Saturday called the Mahagathbandhan’s so-called Voter Rights Yatra a complete failure. He said that the people have understood that the Mahagathbandhan has neither any clear vision nor any concrete achievements during its rule. For this reason, the opposition has taken the help of this unjustified journey to divert the attention of the people from the development works of the Nitish government, but the public has understood their plot and this journey has been completely unsuccessful.
The state president clarified that the public has well understood that the Mahagathbandhan does not have any clear vision nor any concrete achievements during its rule. For this reason, the opposition has taken the help of this unjustified journey to divert the attention of the people from the development works of the Nitish government, but the public has understood their plot and this journey has been completely unsuccessful.
Kushwaha said that the Mahagathbandhan has insulted the public sentiments by including leaders like Revanth Reddy and Stalin, who have hurt the identity of Bihar, in the yatra. For this reason, the people of the entire state are enraged and the RJD-Congress alliance will definitely have to bear the political consequences in the upcoming assembly elections.
In the presence of the party’s national president and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha at the state camp office of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, Mukhiya cum PACS president Virendra Singh alias Bhuli Singh from the Nokha area of Rohtas district, Mukhiya Kamlesh Kumar Patel of Shrikhinda Panchayat, accepted the membership of the party on Saturday.
Party state spokesperson Nitin Bharti said that on this occasion, Kushwaha heartily welcomed and congratulated all the companions joining the party. He said that I am fully confident that with the joining of new companions, the party will get more strength in the entire Shahabad area and especially in the Nokha block of Rohtas and the new companions will work with full dedication and commitment to further accelerate our work of public service.
Other people who accepted the membership of the party included Chitraranjan Singh, Aditya Raj, Ranjit Kumar Singh, Braj Mohan Singh, Ram Ayodhya Giri, Vinay Kumar, Dular Chand Singh, and a large number of people. Party’s state vice-president Chaudhary Basant Patel, Roshan Raja etc. were present on this occasion.
