Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Bihar for a two-day visit and the Mahagathbandhan will hold rallies to counter the BJP’s Seemanchal rallies.
The BJP on Monday claimed that Home Minister Amit Shah’s Bihar visit is aimed at breaking the Popular Front of India (PFI) networks thriving in Seemanchal region of the state. Amit Shah is slated to visit Bihar on September 23 and 24. To counter Amit Shah’s two-day visit, the JD(U)-RJD alliance will hold mega rallies in the state.
Notably, Home Minister Amit Shah is the first top BJP national leader to visit Bihar after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the BJP and returned to Mahagathbandhan.
Union minister Ashwini Choubey, who was in Araria on Monday to take stock of the preparations ahead of Amit Shah’s visit, said that the visit is aimed at breaking the network of PFI that was thriving in the region.
Amit Shah is coming to Seemanchal to break the network of PFI and separatists which has spread in the region. People who are in their support and doing appeasement politics are restless,” he said.
During his two-day visit, the home minister will be holding two public meetings in Purnia and Kishanganj. Keeping this in view, the JD(U) and RJD have decided to counter every move of the saffron outfit like they did in the 2015 Assembly election. The Mahagathbandhan will hold rallies in the state to counter Amit Shah’s visit.
Meanwhile, JD(U) national president Lalan Singh has lashed out at the BJP, alleging that the home minister’s visit was planned to create communal tension in the state.
The BJP has been left with no option but to create communal tension in Bihar. Efforts will be made to divide Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christians but the people of this state are very peace-loving,” he said.
In 2020, when the BJP-JD(U) alliance won the election in Bihar, Nitish Kumar was made the chief minister despite the BJP being the single largest party.
