One excerpt from a news report tells us everything there is to know about Home Minister Amit Shah’s series of virtual rallies held in Biha...
One excerpt from a news report tells us everything there is to know about Home Minister Amit Shah’s series of virtual rallies held in Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal over the last few days, and about his style of functioning in general.
This was the report from the former Bharatiya Janata Party president’s speech in Bihar:
“Addressing the party workers and people of Bihar through a virtual rally, [Shah] attacked the opposition RJD [Rashtriya Janata Dal] saying the growth rate of the state was just 3.9 per cent when the party was in power, but it rose to 11.3 per cent under the [BJP-led govenrment].
The state moved from ‘lalten raj’ to ‘LED raj’, he said referring to the RJD’s poll symbol of lamp.
At the same time, the former BJP president asserted that this rally had nothing to do with the Bihar poll campaign and was aimed at connecting with people during the fight against coronavirus.”
An entire event that BJP officials clearly refer to as a way of “sounding the poll bugle” for Bihar where elections are due late this year, yet Shah insists that his outreach has nothing to do with politics.
This is typical of the BJP’s style of functioning and, indeed, its approach to the coronavirus...
