Patna: LJP chief and union Minister Chirag Paswan on Sunday asserted that he wanted to contest the upcoming assembly polls “for the sake of Bihar as he claimed that ‘jittery’ detractors were trying to put hurdles in the way.
While addressing 'Bahujan Bhim Sankalp Samagam' at Rajgir in Naland district, home district of chief minister Nitish Kumar, Chirag called upon people to remain alert against the "false narrative" of the INDIA bloc before the assembly election. During the last Lok Sabha election, they created a false narrative that the constitution would be under threat if Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a third consecutive term, he added.
He said that people should always keep in mind that the worst attack on the Constitution was noticed when the Emergency was imposed in the country when the Congress was in power and countless young men, mostly Dalits, minorities and OBCs, were forcibly sterilised, he alleged.
Targeting Rahul Gandhi, he said, “Rahul roams around with the red book of the constitution, but his grandmother Indira Gandhi murdered the constitution by imposing Emergency. When will he apologise to the country for this? he asked.
"When the emergency was imposed, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav`s father Lalu Prasad was also sent to jail and now he is with the Congress, he added, challenging Tejashwi to "seek an apology from Rahul Gandhi for excesses during the Emergency", he remarked.
"Many people are nervous that I want to come to Bihar. They are trying to know whether I will be contesting elections here. I wish to tell them, I want to contest assembly polls for the sake of Bihar. So that my dream of Bihar First, Bihari First is fulfilled", he added.
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Earlier, while talking to newspersons in Patna, he condemned the alleged gang rape of a law student in West Bengal and demanded that the President's rule should be imposed in the state.
"The situation in Bengal is horrifying. Not a day passes without incidents of murder, loot and rape. In most such cases, the culprits have been associated with the party in power there", he alleged.
