Tagging Nitish Kumar to PM Modi’s catchphrase, BJP boss starts poll campaign


Tagging Nitish Kumar in PM Modi's catchphrase, BJP chief kicks off Bihar campaign

Bihar Polls: JP Nadda held the first post-COVID-19 public rally in Bihar.

Patna:

The country is safe in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as is Bihar’s progress under the leadership of Nitish Kumar, BJP Chairman JP Nadda said on Sunday as he began the ruling coalition’s election campaign from Gaya with the first public rally after COVID-19. in the state.

Modi hain a mumkin hain aur Nitish hain a sambhav hai (Modi, Nitish make it possible), “he said, in a riff of the 2019 BJP slogan cheering Prime Minister Modi.” The leadership of India is secured in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is important that the leadership of Bihar is secured. with Nitish Kumar, “added the head of BJP.

Nadda urged voters to elect Nitish Kumar once again, saying there has been an increase in development in the last 15 years, especially since 2014, when the Modi government came to power in the center.

Although Chirag Paswan, a member of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) who is running separately this time over differences with the Chief Minister, did not, Nadda appeared to downplay the episode, saying the elections are not contests. friendly.

The BJP chief praised the prime minister’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, saying: “Nitish Kumar took care of the people during the COVID-19 pandemic. His government also provided financial assistance to those who were out of state.”

Listing the NDA government’s development momentum over the past six years in the state, Nadda said there used to be only four medical schools in Bihar, but in the past six years, the state got 14 medical schools and the job. keep going. for another 11.

Nadda is on a one-day visit to Bihar to oversee the BJP election campaign, a day after the party’s high-level meeting in Delhi attended by Prime Minister Modi and Union Interior Minister Amit Shah. He arrived on a special plane to Patna, where he was enthusiastically received by party workers outside the airport.

The party also unveiled its second list of candidates for state elections that begin Oct. 28, announcing 46 more names after the 27 previously announced.

(With PTI inputs)

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