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Informist, Friday, May 30, 2025

NEW DELHI – Blaming the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal for underdevelopment in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said that the National Democratic Alliance government had brought in a new dawn of social justice in the eastern state and in the country. Prime Minister Modi, who is on a two-day visit to the poll-bound state, inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of development projects worth over INR 485.20 billion on Friday. Assembly elections in Bihar are due in Oct-Nov this year.

"...it is the NDA government that brought new dawn of social justice in Bihar and the country. We provided necessary services to poor and backward class people to uplift their lives. Our government provided 40 million new houses, free treatment, and free ration among other benefits to the people belonging to backward classes," Modi said at a rally in Bihar's Karakat.

Modi said Dalits and backward class people were struggling for basic facilities under the Congress-RJD government in the past. "The backward class people and Dalit did not have proper houses during Congress-RJD rule. Was this the Congress-RJD's social justice?" the prime minister said. The Congress and RJD were never concerned about the problems faced by Dalits and backward classes but are invoking the issue of social justice now for the votes, he added.

The prime minister also highlighted the success of Operation Sindoor in his address. Modi had visited Bihar two days after the Pahalgam terrorist attack on Apr. 22, in which 26 people were killed, and had made a pledge to the nation that the masterminds of terror would face justice, with a punishment beyond their imagination. He said on Friday that this pledge was fulfilled. "Those who sat in Pakistan and destroyed the sindoor (vermilion) of our sisters, our Armed Forces turned their hideouts into ruins," Modi said.

"The power of sindoor of the daughters of India was seen by Pakistan as well as the world," he added, asserting that terrorists who once felt secure under the protection of the Pakistani military have been brought to their knees by India's forces in a single decisive action.

Modi underscored that Pakistan's airbases and military installations were destroyed within minutes, declaring, "This is the new India — an India of immense power and resilience".

On Thursday, Modi held a roadshow in Patna followed by a meeting with the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and workers.

In the 243-member Bihar legislative assembly, the BJP is the single-largest party with 84 seats. The party doubled its seat count from 37 in 2005. Currently, the alliance of Janata Dal (United) and the BJP is in power in Bihar under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. According to reports, the alliance will contest the assembly elections with Kumar as the chief ministerial face. However, there has been no official announcement on this yet.  End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

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