In Bihar, all candidates and political parties are making last ditch efforts to woo the voters for the third phase of assembly elections as campaigning ends this evening. 50 assembly constituencies spread over six districts will go to polls in this phase on Wednesday. The districts are Patna, Saran, Vaishali, Nalanda, Bhojpur and Buxar. <br/><br/>Addressing election meeting at Buxar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today alleged Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Sonia Gandhi are conspiring to take away 5 percent reservation of dalits, mahadalits and extremely backward classes. These leaders are planning to give it to others on religion basis if they voted to power. <br/><br/>Mr. Modi said he will not allow to succeed them in their mission. He said he will fight for reservation till his life if any body tries to end the present reservation policy. Mr. Modi said both Nitish and Lalu are misguiding people in the name of reservation. <br/><br/>He said when election comes so called selfish leaders always raise the issues of reservation and try their best to be fool people. PM exhorted people to come forward to finish misrule of 25 years of Nitish-Lalu raj.<br/><br/><br/>Hitting back at Prime Minister, Chief Minister Nitish kumar said it is the power of democracy Narendra Modi is introducing himself as extremely backward class. Earlier he was saying that he belongs to backward class. Nitish Kumar and RJD president Lalu Prasad reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the promises he made during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and asked the latter not to mislead innocent Bihar by telling more lies. <br/><br/>Nitish kumar questioned Mr. Modi for his silence on promises like bringing back black money from abroad, hike in MSP for farmers, employment for youths, special status for Bihar among others and charged the PM with forgetting all those promises. Accusing BJP Lalu Prasad said PM should first leave his rhetoric behind and speak of ground facts and the issues that agitate Bihar.
News On AIR | October 26, 2015 1:55 PM
Campaigning heats up for 3rd phase of Bihar polls