'Jungle Raj', Maa Sita & Lalu Prasad's Scams: Amit Shah Asks Bihar BJP To Stick To 3-Point Mantra

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Last Updated:March 30, 2025, 21:54 IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a one-and-a-half hr gathering successful Patna with the Bihar BJP organisation members. This was followed by a halfway committee gathering of authorities leaders

Union Home Minister Amit Shah being greeted by Bihar BJP main Dilip Jaiswal during the party's halfway committee meeting, successful Patna connected March 29. (Image: PTI)

Before sounding the proverbial canvass bugle connected Sunday successful Bihar’s Gopalganj, wherever assembly elections are owed successful October-November, Union Home Minister Amit Shah gave a three-point mantra – jungle raj, Sita, and corruption – to the BJP’s authorities enactment to absorption on.

Shah held a one-and-a-half hr gathering precocious connected Saturday (March 29) successful Patna with the Bihar BJP organisation members. This was followed by a halfway committee gathering of authorities leaders.

Those contiguous astatine that closed-door gathering said the location curate gave them a basal three-word look to absorption connected for triumph successful the elections: RJD’s jungle raj, the BJP’s committedness to physique a expansive temple for Sita, and the scams by erstwhile main curate Lalu Prasad Yadav.

‘JUNGLE RAJ’

“Remind radical of the days of the ‘jungle raj’ of the RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) and its societal impact, was the wide acquisition from Amit Shah ji," said a Bihar BJP person connected information of anonymity.

“Many implicit the years whitethorn person forgotten the days of kidnapping and murder. There’s a full batch of caller voters who person lone heard astir it. From present on, it volition beryllium the BJP’s main occupation to amended the radical of Bihar astir those acheronian days," the person said, adding that ‘jungle raj’ volition soon beryllium the buzzword successful the state.

On Sunday, addressing a nationalist rally astatine Gopalganj, Shah tore into the RJD with the ‘jungle raj’ narrative. “What did Lalu Yadav’s authorities bash successful Bihar from 1990 to 2005? Lalu Yadav’s authorities defamed Bihar successful the state and the satellite by doing a fodder scam successful the full state. His authorities volition ever beryllium known arsenic ‘jungle raj’ successful the past of Bihar," helium said.

“When they were successful powerfulness (with Tejashwi arsenic lawman main minister), we saw the law-and-order situation. We person precocious seen Subhash Yadav accidental the epicentre of the full kidnapping racket of CM location (during Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure) and erstwhile the aforesaid household members are saying we don’t request to accidental anything. People cognize this. A procreation had forgotten it. But they person present seen it successful this twelvemonth oregon successful the 2 years of the RJD-JD(U). Basically, the RJD is synonymous with atrocious instrumentality and order," BJP nationalist spokesperson Guruprakash, who is from Bihar, told News18.

SCAMS

During Saturday’s meeting, Shah is believed to person told the authorities BJP to punctual people, and punctual Bihar of Lalu Prasad Yadav’s scams. When it comes to Lalu Prasad, everyone knows helium is simply a convict retired connected bail that seems to person been normalised. Shah wants the BJP to spell to voters and database retired the scams for which helium was convicted.

No wonder, connected Sunday itself, Shah mentioned the fodder and bitumen scams astatine the Gopalganj rally. “These scams brought a atrocious sanction to Bihar. The 15-year RJD regularisation successful Bihar volition ever beryllium known for corruption, lawlessness and wide killings," helium said.

The fodder scam was a ungraded involving the embezzlement of astir Rs 940 crore from the state’s funds. Lalu Prasad was convicted by a peculiar CBI court. In the bitumen scam successful Ranchi, meanwhile, the CBI tribunal precocious pronounced its verdict aft 28 years. The tribunal has sentenced 5 convicts, including erstwhile authorities curate Md Ilyas Hussain, to 3 years of imprisonment each.

RELIGION

If elections are here, tin religion beryllium acold behind? While Shah had made a committedness to physique a “grand Sita temple" successful Bihar conscionable similar the 1 successful Ayodhya, connected Saturday, helium is believed to person asked the BJP enactment to hammer the point.

A root said they volition peculiarly absorption connected the Mithila portion from wherever Sita is believed to person belonged. In Mithilanchal, Hindu deity Ram’s woman is adjacent to none. Many adjacent see her a unfortunate and, hence, person a matriarchal wedding ritual.

Shah has, hence, chosen to honour “Mata Sita" and instrumentality her sanction successful the aforesaid enactment arsenic Ram. On Sunday, helium reiterated that the NDA authorities is besides constructing a monolithic temple astatine the birthplace of Sita successful Bihar. He adjacent added that the Nitish Kumar-led authorities is processing ‘Punaura Dham Janki Mandir’, a Hindu pilgrimage tract successful Sitamarhi district, often believed to beryllium Sita’s birthplace.

Shah archetypal revealed the thought a fewer days agone portion addressing a Shashwat Mithila Mahotsav 2025 lawsuit successful Ahmedabad past week. He had said: “We person already built Ram temple astatine Ayodhya, present it is clip to conception a expansive Sita temple successful Bihar (in Sitamarhi)."

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