PATNA/NEW DELHI: In the first-ever virtual political rally of the country, home minister Amit Shah on Sunday made it clear that the saffron party and its allies would contest the assembly polls in Bihar under the leadership of chief minister and JD(U) boss Nitish Kumar and garner a two-thirds majority.
Although Shah clarified at the beginning of his speech that the rally was not the launch of the party’s poll campaign but a bid to connect with people in an hour of crisis, the virtual rally has set the stage for the campaign for Bihar polls, due later this year. There were indications in the rally that the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the Centre and the state government would be one of the dominant themes.
This was evident from the angry response Shah‘s engagement drew from RJD whose workers clanged steel ‘thalis’ to accuse BJP of neglecting the poor. “There are elections in Bihar in the coming days, I believe that under Nitish Kumarji’s leadership, NDA will form the government with two-thirds majority,” Shah said. Shah said the event was one of the 75 virtual public meetings that the party has organised f