Patna, September 13: RJD leader Lalu Prasad today charged BJP with having a secret understanding with Congress to “swallow” regional and smaller parties in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. Prasad”s attack came a day after BJP alleged that RJD and Congress have arrived at a secret alliance for the polls.
“Congress and BJP have a secret understanding and they want to have a bipolar political system in India,” Prasad told reporters here. Prasad claimed that Congress had ensured “clean chit” from CBI to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Shoharabuddin encounter case.
“The two arrived at a secret deal and CBI netted a small chicken (a minister in Modi-led government), while it cleared Modi of all charges. It says beyond doubt that the two big parties have a pact,” he said.
Prasad slammed BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar for his reported claim that Lalu Prasad was not going to return to power in Bihar. “BJP does not have culture and it is a party of propaganda,” he said, referring to Kumar”s comments yesterday that the RJD may have publicly allied with Ram Vilas Paswan”s LJP, but it has a “secret alliance” with Congress for the Assembly polls.
Prasad said the ruling BJP-JD(U) alliance in Bihar has “now gone into coma” as it was facing an imminent defeat and added that all sections of the people have decided to vote for the RJD-LJP to power. “Voting for Congress will mean helping BJP,” he cautioned the people.
—-PTI—