Drama over imminent Bihar defeat: Nadda on Rahul’s rigging charge

BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday said Rahul Gandhi was resorting to lies and drama in the face of Congress’ imminent defeat in Bihar elections.

“Rahul’s latest remarks are a blueprint for manufacturing fake narratives, owing to his desperation of losing election after election,” Nadda said, offering a five-point rebuttal to Rahul’s five-point allegations about rigging in the 2024 Maharashtra elections.

“The Congress gets defeated election after election due to his antics; instead of introspecting, he cooks up bizarre conspiracies and cries rigging; ignores all facts and data; defames institutions with zero proof; hopes for headlines over facts,” said Nadda.

He said Rahul was doing all this because a defeat in Bihar was certain. “Democracy doesn’t need drama. It needs truth,” Nadda added.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday refuted Rahul’s charges of rigging in Maharashtra elections and said until Gandhi hit the ground running to understand realities, things for his party would not change.

“As long as he does not go to the ground, as long as he gives himself false assurances, things will not change for his party and such baseless narratives will continue,” Fadnavis said, adding that the Congress has admitted to defeat even before Bihar elections.

Rahul today said the Maharashtra match-fixing would continue in Bihar too.

The Maharashtra Congress, meanwhile, announced statewide protests on June 12, to hammer Rahul’s accusations that the 2024 state elections were rigged.

Maharashtra Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal confirmed the plans for the protest.