Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged the RJD forced Congress to accept Tejashwi Yadav as the alliance’s chief ministerial pick by placing a “katta” or country-made gun to its head.
- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge rejected the charge as a lie, saying such rhetoric demeans the office of the prime minister.
- Tejashwi Yadav criticized the language used by Modi, saying he had never heard a prime minister speak that way and contrasting Bihar-focused attacks with development talk elsewhere.
- Modi framed the opposition through the long-running “jungle raj” narrative and suggested Congress was sidelined in crafting the Mahagathbandhan’s manifesto.
- Voting in Bihar’s 243-seat assembly race is scheduled for November 6 and 11 with counting on November 14, while a Patna court remanded JD(U) candidate Anant Singh to 14-day judicial custody in a murder case.