Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing offensive against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) at a packed election rally in Saharsa, north Bihar, charging that the party, after being voted out of power in 2005, weaponized its influence in the Congress-led UPA government to deliberately stall major development projects in the state—including the long-awaited Kosi Mahasetu bridge—solely as an act of political vengeance against Nitish Kumar’s newly formed NDA government.

Modi detailed how the RJD, despite sharing power at the Centre under Manmohan Singh, allegedly pressured Sonia Gandhi to freeze initiatives originally sanctioned by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee administration, leaving the flood-prone Kosi region isolated and suffering for nearly a decade until the NDA returned to power and not only revived but fast-tracked the bridge’s completion, alongside pledging comprehensive river interlinking and a robust flood-control blueprint in its 2025 manifesto.

In a pointed attack on the INDIA bloc’s internal dynamics, the Prime Minister claimed that a diminished Congress—now a “spent force” in Bihar—was coerced into declaring Tejashwi Yadav as the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate only after the RJD symbolically “placed a katta (illegal country-made gun) on its head,” and predicted that the grand old party, nursing deep resentment, is now determined to ensure the RJD’s electoral downfall in the ongoing assembly polls.

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Addressing a crowd in a region with a significant Muslim population, Modi accused the RJD-Congress combine of being dangerously soft on infiltrators, culturally insensitive by snubbing the newly inaugurated Ram temple in Ayodhya, and indifferent to Bihar’s sacred Chhath festival, while mocking their leaders for jet-setting abroad but never finding time to visit Ayodhya—sarcastically suggesting they at least pay respects at monuments honoring Nishad Raj or Valmiki if devotion to Lord Ram is too much to ask.

From the historic soil of Mithila—birthplace of Sita, Bharti, and Gargi—Modi celebrated the triumph of India’s women cricketers in the World Cup, lauded the transformative impact of “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao,” and issued a stark warning to mothers and sisters benefiting from NDA welfare schemes: beware the “jungle raj wallahs,” who he alleged would dismantle every empowerment program upon return, while proudly displaying a traditional makhana garland gifted on stage, declaring he presents Bihar’s superfood to global leaders as a symbol of its farmers’ resilience.

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