18-May-2024 10:14 PM
6737
Patna, May 18 (Reporter) Union Minister Prahlad Joshi strongly targeted the INDIA alliance including Congress and RJD saying that RJD President Lalu Prasad's political game is over and claimed that his son Tejaswi Prasad Yadav will not be able to carry it forward anymore.
While talking to newspersons here on Saturday Joshi, accompanied by the former MLA Usha Vidyarthi, alleged that the family-oriented political parties including RJD in the INDI bloc were utterly corrupt and the people would reject them in the election.
Countering Tejaswi's suggestions for rest to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said that Tejaswi wanted to give rest to Modi but the people gave rest to the RJD family for 10 years at the center and 15 years in Bihar and claimed that the public will again send the RJD to permanent rest.
Taking a potshot at the reservation issue under the social justice ideology of the opponents, the Union Minister claimed that BJP always supported reservation while Congress and RJD opposed it. He further said that Congress did not give Bharat Ratna to Baba Saheb Ambedkar but felicitated Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi with the prestigious award. Social justice ideology of Congress stands exposed, he added.
He said that under the MISA Act, Congress had strangled the socialist leaders which the RJD leader Lalu Prasad had opposed strongly but now he entered into the truck with the same organisation.
Lambasting the Karnataka government of Congress he alleged that not a single grain was made available to the poor whereas during elections it had promised to provide 10 kg of grain to every poor...////...