Bihar to see 3 new portfolios for murder, kidnapping, extortion if Lalu’s son voted to power: Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on the family of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, alleging that if his son was voted to power, Bihar would see “creation of three ministries for murder, kidnapping and extortion”.

On the other hand, if the NDA retained power, Bihar would be made flood-free, he claimed, while addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur.

He urged people to vote for the NDA to “check the recurrence of ‘jungle raj’ witnessed during RJD regime”.

Shah said that the NDA would not only usher in a new era of development but also create a separate ministry to control floods.

“If voted to power, the NDA government will make Bihar flood-free...It will set up a separate ministry to control floods,” claimed Shah, while addressing a poll rally at Muzaffarpur.

“If Lalu’s son (Tejashwi) becomes Bihar chief minister, three more new ministries will be created to oversee kidnapping, extortion and murder...Your votes for NDA will save Bihar from RJD’s ‘jungle raj’. Efforts are underway to bring back ‘jungle raj’ with new faces,” Shah alleged.

He also accused RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi of “trying to make their sons the Bihar chief minister and the prime minister, respectively, and asserted that both posts “are not vacant”.

“PM Modi made India secure, safe, and prosperous and launched various welfare schemes,” Shah said.

Highlighting welfare schemes launched under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah said the reduction in GST would help litchi growers in Bihar, and “steps are being taken to set up a mega food park in Muzaffarpur with Rs 20,000 crore investment”.

“Under the Modi-Nitish regime, Bihar became the first state to export rail engines and set up an engineering cluster at Gayaji,” he said.

“The PM has chalked out a scheme to ensure water from Koshi, Ganga, and Gandak rivers reaches farmers’ fields for irrigation in Bihar,” the former BJP president said at the Vaishali rally.

A special Vande Bharat train would be launched to connect Bihar’s Sitamarhi, considered the birthplace of Goddess Sita, to Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, where the Ram Temple has been set up.

The train service would be initiated after the Sita Temple is built at Sitamarhi at a cost of Rs 850 crore.

He termed NDA allies — the BJP, JD(U), Chirag Paswan’s LJP (RV), HAM, Kushwaha’s party as the five Pandavas, and said the alliance would “ensure Bihar’s prosperity”.