Bhagalpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address his fourth ‘parivartan rally’ in Bhagalpur on Tuesday in an attempt to boost the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chances in the upcoming Bihar polls.
Preparations are underway at the venue with heavy security checks being done on the grounds. Revellers gathered around the venue chanting the Prime Minister’s name, playing drums and wearing masks of Prime Minister Modi’s face.
The Prime Minister is expected to counter a joint attack launched on him by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his allies Lalu Prasad Yadav and Congress president Sonia Gandhi two days ago.
At a mega rally in Patna on Sunday, they targeted PM Modi for the Centre’s decision to bury the changes it had planned in the law for acquiring land for big projects, strategically before the elections in Bihar, a primarily agrarian state.
Nitish Kumar and Sonia Gandhi alleged that the PM was forced to “bow to the people’s will” and abandon an “anti-farmer law.”
Meanwhile, the ‘Swabhiman’ rally of the grand alliance of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Samajwadi Party and the Congress which was held on Sunday was described as a ‘flop show’ by Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan.
At his last rally, Modi had announced a Rs. 1.25 lakh-crore financial bonanza in central funds for the state. The BJP in Bihar believes that has given it a distinct edge in these elections that it must win to efface the nightmare of the last assembly election it fought – Delhi, where it was routed by the Aam Aadmi Party.