Modi, Shah engage in real ‘jungle raj’ by misuse of ED, CBI: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission while addressing poll rallies in Bihar on Thursday .

Mr. Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, said Mr. Modi “only knows how to spread hatred”, adding that the Prime Minister’s “heart is filled with hatred” and he engages “in pitting people against each other in the name of religion and caste”.

Ms. Vadra alleged that the BJP and the poll panel are “colluding to rig the elections, take away voting rights and attack the Constitution”.

Responding to charges of ‘jungle raj’ levelled by the NDA against the Mahagatbandhan, Mr. Gandhi said in Araria that the “actual jungle raj” has been unleashed by Mr. Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah across the country from Delhi through the “misuse” of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Income Tax (IT) department to intimidate people.

Mr. Gandhi said Bihar will have a Mahagatbandhan government after the elections and assured that it will represent all sections of the society. He said the government will generate employment, provide quality education and ensure better health facilities. “If the youth of Bihar can work across the country and build some of the finest cities, why can’t they be provided opportunities in the State itself,” he asked.

The Congress leader said the tourist circuit will be developed to directly benefit the people. He said it will create employment opportunities for the youth.

Mr. Gandhi asked people to remain vigilant so that the “BJP does not steal the elections in the State as it did in Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh”. In Purnia he said: “I showed how Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, and the Election Commission are committing ‘vote theft’. I presented such evidence that neither the BJP nor the Election Commission could respond.”

Ms. Vadra addressed two public meetings at Riga and Benipatti Assembly constituencies and alleged that Mr. Modi “wants to buy votes by giving ₹10,000” before the elections.

“Today, there is migration and poverty in Bihar. People go to other States to earn for their families, but Modi and Nitish do not see this. For 20 years, the NDA government has been in power, but Modi has never even gone to any village in Bihar to know the condition of the people. They don’t care about the public at all,” she said in Riga.

In Benipatti, Ms. Vadra asked people to “remember three names” – Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sindhu and Vivek Joshi – and alleged that they “stole people’s votes”. She alleged that the BJP-JD(U) combine has pushed Bihar into the “swamp of unemployment, migration, paper leaks, and hooliganism”.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and INDIA bloc chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav addressed public meetings at 18 Assembly constituencies which will go to polls in the second phase on November 11.