Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (November 8, 2025) came down heavily on the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress over ‘jungle raj’.
Addressing a rally in Bettia town of West Champaran district, Mr. Modi asserted that Bihar does not want a katta (country-made gun)government, adding that the current NDA government stood for good governance.
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Calling it his last election rally in Bihar before the second phase of polling, Mr. Modi said the State’s youth, women, poor brothers and sisters, middle class, and farmers have given support to the NDA. He said that this election is not being fought by any leader of the NDA but rather by the people of Bihar themselves.
“The NDA’s double engine government has outlined what it has done and what it plans to do next, presenting its work and the roadmap for the future before the people of Bihar,” Mr. Modi said.
Attacking the Opposition, the Prime Minister said Bettiah town has witnessed the most terrifying era of RJD and Congress’s ‘jungle raj’.
“The jungle raj people had turned this sacred land of Satyagraha into a stronghold of goons and dacoits. Murders were happening and it was difficult for sisters and daughters to step out of their homes,” Mr. Modi said.
He also pointed out that he was saying this to remind everyone of the RJD’s regime because where the rule of law ends, it is the poor and deprived people who suffer the most first.
Mr. Modi cautioned the people that it is the responsibility of the people of Bihar to keep away ‘jungle raj’ so that Bihar achieves new heights of development. He also mentioned the campaign songs of the RJD, which have references of katta and rowdiness.
Claiming that the RJD and Congress do not even know the “ABCD of industries”, he quipped that the two parties only know how to put “locks on industries”.
“In 15 years, not a single big factory was set up in Bihar. Even the mills and factories that were there in Mithila have shut down. In 15 years of Jungle Raj, not a single big hospital or medical college was built in Bihar. Therefore, the talk of development from the mouths of these jungle raj people is nothing but white lies,” Mr. Modi said.
He explained that development happens only when there is no corruption and scams but the leaders of RJD and Congress do not know how to do anything else besides this.
Mr. Modi alleged that the first family in RJD is the most corrupt family in Bihar whereas the Congress family is the most corrupt family in the country. Besides Champaran, Mr. Modi also addressed a rally in Sitamarhi.
Meanwhile, Mr. Shah, addressing a public meeting in Katihar, said that wherever he was going in Bihar, the enthusiasm among the people indicates that the parties led by Lalu Prasad and Rahul Gandhi has ended in the first phase of polling.
“In the second phase, the people of Seemanchal region need to vote in such a way that the RJD and the Jungle Raj are nowhere to be seen, not even with binoculars from far,” Mr. Shah said.
He also alleged that “infiltrators” are vote banks of RJD and Congress and to protect them they took out ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar. Mr. Shah asserted that he was not afraid of their vote banks and that BJP will drive them out.
Praising the NDA government, Mr. Shah listed out the achievements of Mr. Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar doing numerous works for Seemanchal. He further said that during Lalu-Rabri’s rule in the past, MLAs were murdered in broad daylight in Bihar and industries of loot, murder, extortion and kidnapping were thriving.
Earlier, Mr. Shah also addressed a rally in Purnia and Supaul where he criticised RJD for giving Assembly tickets to Osama Shahab, son of don-turned-politician late Mohammad Shahabuddin.
He promised to make Bihar flood-free and the rivers coming from Nepal that cause destruction are going to be connected to those rivers to channel the floodwater to the farmers’ fields.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav also addressed 18 rallies on the second last day of the campaign appealing to the voters to give him a chance for 20 months in power as they have given the opportunity to NDA for 20 years in Bihar. He promised the voters that when the INDIA bloc forms the government in Bihar, one family from every household will get a State government job.
Published – November 08, 2025 08:34 pm IST
