Arwal: Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah used public rallies in Arwal and Sasaram to issue a stark warning about what he described as a return to lawlessness if voters backed parties associated with “red flags”. Speaking as campaigning intensified ahead of the November 14 results, the Union Home Minister sought to tie opposition forces to past Naxalite violence and argued that only the National Democratic Alliance could preserve order and development in Bihar.
“In Arwal I say: if these red-flag people come, even by mistake, jungle raj will prevail across Bihar,” Shah told a packed rally, accusing former leaders of having once “fostered Naxalism”. He said he had toured 38 venues across the state — including Magadha, Seemanchal and Patna — and claimed the electorate had already rejected what he called a “thug alliance”.
बिहार की जनता ने पहले चरण में NDA की रिकॉर्ड जीत सुनिश्चित कर दी है। दूसरे चरण में राजद-कांग्रेस का सूपड़ा साफ होने वाला है। अरवल में उमड़ा जनसैलाब बता रहा है कि पूरे बिहार में बस NDA की लहर है… https://t.co/v5HeDgS6vK
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 9, 2025
At a separate appearance in Sasaram, the minister reiterated the charge and framed the contest as a choice between development and disorder. He also returned to a theme deployed elsewhere on the campaign trail, asserting that any future security response to cross-border attacks would be backed by munitions made in Bihar’s nascent defence corridor: “If Pakistan dares again, we will respond… These cannon shells will be made in Bihar.”
Shah further accused rival campaigns of protecting “infiltrators” who, he claimed, threatened local jobs — a line aimed at stoking anxieties over migration and employment. His intervention underlines how law-and-order narratives and nationalist imagery have been central to the NDA’s closing arguments in the state.
