Benefits never reached poor under RJD-Congress rule, alleges PM Modi at Bihar rally
'What to speak of giving equal rights to the poor, backwards, Dalits and Adivasis, they cannot give even respect to the people outside their families,' Modi commented in a public rally in Bihar Motihari, while obliquely targeting RJD chief Lalu Prasad after a portrait of Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar was placed near his feet by one of his supporters during his birthday celebrations.
Avoiding responding to the allegations being made by RJD and its allies about the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the election rolls in Bihar, Modi said that RJD had put the brakes on the development of Bihar as even benefits were not reaching the poor when RJD and Congress were in power.
He said that UPA released only around Rs 2 lakh crore when it was in power at the centre as it was taking revenge against Bihar's NDA government headed by Nitish Kumar and the state itself.
PM said, 'I stopped this old politics as the central assistance to Bihar increased manifold after the formation of the NDA government at the Centre in 2014.'
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