Gaya: As Bihar gears up for its assembly elections, the ruling BJP has sharpened its focus on young voters, bringing forward Bansuri Swaraj as a prominent face of its outreach campaign. Addressing the Yuva Shankhnaad programme at the Convention Centre in Bodh Gaya on Saturday, Swaraj said Bihar’s youth wanted progress, jobs and opportunities, not “abuses” in political discourse.
She strongly criticised recent comments made about Modi’s late mother, calling them “an insult to Indian culture and traditions”. “The opposition does not have issues, so they resort to indecency. The youth of Bihar, devotees of Sita Maiya, will answer this in the elections,” she declared.
Swaraj pointed to development projects since 2005, including the construction of more than 221 model police stations, expansion of six-lane highways, and large-scale infrastructure worth thousands of crores. She also credited Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for universal household electrification, contrasting it with the “lantern era” of the past.
Jamui MLA Shreyasi Singh, who also addressed the event, echoed these remarks, saying Bihar’s young population sought a future in “Digital India, education, sports and employment” rather than a return to “darkness, backwardness and bad governance”.
With Bihar’s large youth demographic poised to play a decisive role, the BJP’s campaign strategy appears firmly anchored in projecting development and generational change while discrediting the opposition’s rhetoric.
