With the NDA heading towards a clean sweep in the Bihar assembly elections, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav on Friday asserted that the verdict reflects the strength of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.
Dr Yadav was all the more elated over the Bihar results as he had himself campaigned vigorously at several places in that state. The party had chosen him as one of only two star campaigners from MP.
Yadav is an OBC, and OBCs constitute a huge percentage of voters in Bihar.
Another powerful OBC leader and Dr Yadav’s immediate predecessor, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, was the other star campaigner from MP.
“The Bihar assembly election results show the strength of Prime Minister Modi’s leadership. After Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi, the NDA has once again won in Bihar. This is the impact of Modi’s leadership” Dr Yadav noted.
He said he had sensed during the campaign itself that the political atmosphere in Bihar was favourable for the NDA, which is visible in the results.
Mocking Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha (LoP) Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party, he said the LoP’s level of political acumen can be gauged from the fact that when elections were going on in Bihar, he was enjoying a vacation at Pachmarhi, the famous hill station of Madhya Pradesh.
The MP CM further said that the Congress party continues to remain in an air of its own and that is the reason it has been out of power for so long, and will remain in the Opposition for another 50 years if such a state of its affairs persists.
In the run-up to the Bihar polls, the MP BJP had also gone the extra mile to woo the Biharis in MP by organizing the grandest Chhath Pooja celebrations in several years across the state. Dr Yadav also participated in the biggest Chhath Pooja event held at his home town Ujjain.
BJP’s special effort in MP was prompted by the fact that lakhs of Biharis live, work, and study in Madhya Pradesh. Many of them are voters in Bihar, while several others have family members who are voters in that state.
Polling for the state assembly elections on 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar was held in two phases on November 6 and 11, and the results were declared on 14 November.
Rahul Gandhi had visited Pachmarhi on 9 November to address a training camp of district Congress presidents, where he dined with the participants and their families and also stayed the night. He went on a jungle safari on 10 November morning, before leaving for Bihar to campaign.