?RJD no challenge?

JD(U)'s Saharsa candidate Dinesh Chandra Yadav talks about his chances.

Janata Dal (United) candidate Dinesh Chandra Yadav tells Lalitesh Mishra why he supports the popular view that President’s rule in Bihar is a must. Excerpts:

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What makes you confident of your win?
I have served my people sincerely and faithfully and have lived up to their expectations. I have been able to carry a large number of development works in my constituency, which had earlier remained just a dream.

Don’t you think that development issues suffered due to caste polarisation on the eve of elections?
I agree with you to some extent. Caste polarisation does take place during elections but people of Bihar, particularly in the backward Saharsa areas have been so development starved and disillusioned by the caste plank during all these years that they would now like to vote for development and not destruction. Progress issues would now supersede all other trivial considerations.

RJD and its alliance partners have been proclaiming day in and day out that NDA would be wiped out from Bihar in the elections. How great and substantial is the challenge posed to you by the Lok Janshakti Party candidate here?
Frankly speaking, RJD and its partners are no challenge to us, which was evident even during the last polls. Earlier too, Laloo Prasad Yadav had used the same refrain, but the results were there for everyone to see. Besides, I do not consider Lok Janshakti Party candidate worth any threat.

Do you subscribe to some leaders’ view that imposition of president’s rule in the event of NDA coming to power is necessary to bring the state out of the morass it is in?
Bihar must be placed under president’s rule without any further delay. If NDA comes to power it would certainly be done in case of Bihar as the RJD-led government in the state has utterly failed in discharging its duties. Lawlessness is at its peak, development has taken a back seat and people are groaning under the weight of misrule.