Congratulating Rahul Gandhi for being elected the president of All Indian Congress Committee on Monday, Rashtriya Janata Dal president lalu Prasad said that he expected Rahul will take a resolution to take all the like-minded parties on board for 2019 poll battle.
Talking to media persons after appearing before different CBI Courts in Ranchi, Prasad claimed that the Congress Party will get more than 50 seats in the first phase of elections held recently in Gujarat.
“I expect that Rahul will take a resolution, taking along all the like minded parties to win the battle being fought by us to remove Modi from power,” said the former Bihar Chief Minister.
He claimed that the country had been looking towards youth for a change and Rahul has also changed himself a lot in the last few years.
“People as well as the business community in the country are in silent mode and I am confident that the Congress Party will be getting at least 50 seats in the first phase of polls held on Saturday,” said Prasad.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not been working on development. Rather he has been working on a hidden agenda,” he added.
Referring to PM Modi’s Pakistan remarks about Congress leader Manishankar Aiyar, Prasad questioned that why it is so that the BJP starts naming Pakistan during elections. He also cautioned PM Modi not to torture people of this country as he did not fulfil the promises made during 2014 parliamentary elections.
He said that the condition of Bihar was very poor and a bandh has been called by the RJD against poverty and hunger to root out the current government from the State.
Earlier, the RJD president here appeared before a Special CBI Court of SS Prasad in connection with the fodder scam case RC68A/96 following an order issued by the court to complete the arguments by the defence by December 15. He also appeared before the CBI courts of Shivpal Singh and Pradeep Kumar in connection with RC64A/96, RC38A/96 and RC47A/96 respectively.