Patna: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday travelled to three districts in Bihar, mounting a scathing attack on the RJD–Congress alliance and urging voters to reject what he described as a return to “jungle raj” and criminality.
Speaking at separate rallies in Raghunathpur, Shahpur and Buxar, the BJP leader campaigned for a slate of National Democratic Alliance candidates: Vikas Kumar Singh (Raghunathpur), Vishnudev Paswan (Darauli), Rakesh Ranjan Ojha (Shahpur), and in Buxar for Anand Mishra, Rahul Singh and Hulas Pandey. He framed his visits as part of a wider appeal for a “double‑engine” government of PM Narendra Modi at the centre and CM Nitish Kumar in the state.
Yogi accused the RJD and Congress — and their allies, including the Samajwadi Party — of presiding over an era of lawlessness and nepotism. Without citing independent evidence, he said some candidates had “family criminal backgrounds” and claimed past periods of RJD rule had left Bihar vulnerable to “mafia” control and migration of talent.
“Whenever a robbery was to be committed, these lanterns were used,” he said at a joint rally in Buxar, adding that the opposition had attempted “to extinguish the lantern” and “rob the people’s rights”. He described the RJD–Congress alliance as a “factory of crime and a barrier to development”, and argued that voters should opt instead for development under a “double‑engine government”.
At the Shahpur meeting, Yogi continued his broadside against the opposition, saying that during previous administrations “youth migration, farmers’ suicides, and fear among businessmen” were widespread. He praised recent projects in Uttar Pradesh — including urban redevelopment in Ayodhya and a large road scheme he described as the Ram‑Janaki Marg — and invoked the government’s use of bulldozers to dismantle criminal strongholds in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh as a model he said should be emulated in Bihar.
Yogi also raised religious and cultural themes, accusing opponents of opposing the Ayodhya Ram temple project and suggesting some parties had historically been hostile to “Ram devotees”. He told supporters that those who “usurp the rights of the poor and play with the honour of sisters” would face the severest consequences.
The rallies come as part of intense campaigning in the state. Yogi’s language was sharply partisan, and his allegations about individual candidates’ backgrounds were delivered as political accusation rather than established fact. Opposition parties routinely reject such attacks as electioneering; the RJD and Congress did not respond at the rallies reported here.
