PM Modi, Shah, Rahul raise Bihar elections heat

Poll-bound Bihar experienced scalding political temperature Thursday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was assisted by cabinet colleagues Amit Shah and Jagat Prakash Nadda in launching a multi-pronged attack on the Opposition INDIA bloc.

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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, who had launched his campaign in the state a day ago, was back in Bihar to address a couple of solo election meetings in constituencies contested by the Congress.

He had, Wednesday, held two joint rallies with RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, the INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial candidate.

Gandhi was flayed by Modi at back-to-back rallies in Muzaffarpur and Saran districts, where the Prime Minister, without mentioning the former Congress president by name, accused him of “insulting Chhathi Maiya", the deified form of Bihar's most popular festival.

The Congress leader had dubbed a “drama” Modis plan to take a dip in the Yamuna river in Delhi on the occasion of Chhath Puja, and mocked the 75-year-old Prime Minister, alleging, “he will do anything, even dance, perform Bharatnatyam, on the stage if it could fetch him votes”.