Patna, September 07: After recent Lok Sabha debacle, RJD and its ally LJP have taken the upcoming bypolls to 18 Assembly seats in Bihar as a major challenge.
“We are treating this election as a step ahead of our preparations for the upcoming Assembly polls in Bihar,” RJD Chief Lalu Prasad told joint election rallies with LJP’s Paswan at Ramgarh. He also held rallies in Chainpur and Chenari Assembly segments.
Claiming that the Nitish Kumar government was a failure on all fronts, Prasad said as erstwhile central ministers he and Paswan had ensured adequate central assistance to the state. “But it is unfortunate that no development is seen in Bihar now,” he said.
There was tremendous rise in the atrocities on Dalits, women, minorities and poor during the four-year-long rule of Kumar, he alleged.
Paswan criticised Kumar for allegedly dividing the society in the name of Mahdalits and demanded that the state government make public the report of the commission on Mahadalits without any delay.
—Agencies