A day after RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav took over as Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister, he called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Left leaders in the national Capital on Friday and said Bihar’s “unity” model will be replicated across the country.
Tejashwi met Sonia at her residence and also met CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI general secretary D Raja.
He said the pre-poll constituents of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) have welcomed the decision by Nitish Kumar.
Talking to media after meeting Sonia, the Dy CM of Bihar said Kumar’s decision to form the Mahagathbandhan Government is a “slap on the BJP’s face” and a similar coming together of Opposition parties will be replicated across the country.
Accusing the BJP of working to finish regional parties, Tejashwi asserted that this is nothing but a design to end democracy in the country. He said he sought support from the Congress to thwart such an unholy design.
“The BJP wanted to finish Kumar, They created a division in Ram Vilas Paswan’s party. If regional parties are finished, Opposition will be finished, democracy will be finished. If democracy is finished, the country will be run in a dictatorial manner,” he said.
In his meeting with Yechury and Raja, the RJD leader is learnt to have discussed the developments in Bihar as well as the way forward. After the meeting, Yadav said in a tweet that he met the two Left leaders and had a positive discussion on the current social, economic and political scenario prevailing in the country and Bihar. Yadav said all parties have joined hands against the BJP in the Bihar Assembly, and added now this is going to be replicated across the whole country.
“People are suffering due to inflation. There are those who want to rule by creating Hindu-Muslim tensions, put the Constitution and democracy in danger, they want to break the brotherhood, Bihar has once again given a new direction to the country,” he said.
“For that we thank the Chief Minister, Sonia Gandhi, Yechury, Dipankar (Bhattacharya, CPI-ML general secretary), Raja and Lalu (Prasad),” he said.
Claiming that the BJP liked to scare those who get scared and buy those who could be bought , Yadav alleged that Constitutional institutions are being destroyed. “Be it the Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation or Income Tax (Department), their condition is worse than police stations. Who do they want to scare? We, the people of Bihar, are not going to be scared. I have said ‘Bihari bikaau nahi, tikaau hota hai’ (People of Bihar cannot be bought out, they are reliable),” he said.