Addressing public rallies at Sasaram and Arwal on Sunday, the final day of campaigning for the Bihar Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to voters to keep the NDA in power to maintain and accelerate the pace of development in Bihar.
He urged the people of Sasaram and Arwal to prevent the RJD and the Congress from coming to power in Bihar, otherwise the state, which is progressing rapidly, could once again be ruined by lawlessness.
Shah promised that the NDA government would work to make Bihar a developed state over the next five years.
He announced that the government would grant a GI tag to Rohtas’s Sonachoor rice to benefit local farmers. The NDA government would also promote marketing for the region’s famous Sona fish.
He said lawlessness and Naxalism has been eradicated from Bihar, and that the next target would be to remove infiltrators. “Several districts of Bihar were once affected by Naxalism. The Naxals dreamed of a Red Corridor stretching from Kathmandu to Tirupati. They tried to halt Bihar’s development at gunpoint, but it has now been eliminated from the state. By March 31, 2026, the entire country will be free of Naxalism,” he added.
He further said that Lalu Yadav and Rahul Gandhi want to build an “infiltrator corridor” while Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to build industrial and defence corridors, set up arms factories, and sugar mills in Bihar.
He asserted that PM Modi has made the country secure, contrasting it with the period when Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Lalu Yadav were in power, during which, he claimed, terrorists frequently infiltrated from Pakistan. “If in the future terrorists make such attempts, a bullet will be answered with a shell. This time, the shell that falls in Pakistan will not be foreign-made, but made in Bihar and Sasaram,” he added.
Shah alleged that infiltrators form the vote bank of Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav, while the NDA’s support comes from the youth of Sasaram and the women beneficiaries of Jeevika, who, he said, would vote for the NDA and form the government.
“I have travelled to about 38 places during this election and have reached Arwal today. Whether it was Magadh, Seemanchal, Ara, Patna, or Mithilanchal — everywhere in Bihar I witnessed strong public support for the NDA,” he said.