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‘PM Modi will dance for votes’: Rahul Gandhi's scathing attack in Bihar, BJP hits back
Rahul Gandhi made the remark during a Mahagathbandhan rally in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, where Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition leaders were present.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a poll rally in Bihar, saying "he can do anything for votes."
Gandhi, who was addressing a Mahagathbandhan rally in Muzaffarpur, said that the prime minister “can even dance for votes.” He was speaking alongside several opposition leaders, including Mahagathbandhan's CM face Tejashwi Yadav.
Attacking the prime minister, the Congress leader told the gathering: “If you tell Modi ji to do drama for votes, he would do. If you tell him that you would vote for him and ask him to come to the stage and dance, he would dance.”
He also lashed out at the NDA government in the state, saying that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is just a face in the state government, but the "remote control" is in the hands of the BJP.
"I agree with Tejashwi Yadav, who spoke just before me, that the government in Bihar is being run through remote control. They are simply using the face of Nitish Kumar," Gandhi said.
"Three or four people control it. BJP controls it. They have the remote controller in their hands, and they have nothing to do with social justice. I said in front of the Prime Minister in the Lok Sabha that you should get the caste census done. He did not say a single word... BJP is against social justice. They do not want it," he further said.
BJP hits back
Rahul Gandhi's remarks soon invited barbs from the BJP, with party leader Pradeep Bhandari saying that the Congress leader speaks like a "local goon."
In an X post, Bhandari wrote, “Rahul Gandhi speaks like a 'Local Goon'. Rahul Gandhi has openly insulted every poor of India, & Bihar who has voted for PM Narendra Modi ji! Rahul Gandhi has mocked voters and Indian democracy.”
Union Minister Giriraj Singh also made a loaded remark at the Congress MP, saying “the habit of dancing runs in Gandhi's family”.
“The people of Bihar will give them a befitting reply. Rahul Gandhi himself was dancing on a motorcycle, and he also knows with whom he was dancing. The habit of dancing runs in Rahul Gandhi's family,” Giriraj Singh said.
Rahul's strong jibe at the Muzaffarpur rally comes at a time when the BJP has attacked the party claiming that Rahul Gandhi had "gone missing".
Earlier in the day, BJP leader Amit Malviya shared a post on X alongside a poster showing Rahul Gandhi as "missing for 59 days".
The assembly elections will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. The results will be declared on November 14.
