'Under Nitish Kumar's leadership': PM Modi's big endorsement after Grand Alliance declares Tejashwi as CM face

PM Modi addressed a massive public rally at the Samastipur airport ground on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the NDA will break all its previous records of victory.

While addressing a rally in Samastipur, the PM said Bihar will give NDA its "biggest ever mandate".

"The people of Maharashtra gave us a bigger majority than before. Haryana did the same and elected us for a third term. In Madhya Pradesh, too, the BJP has been in power for a long time. We’ve seen this in Gujarat and Uttarakhand as well. In Gujarat, the BJP has been in power for over two decades, and in Uttar Pradesh, where governments changed every five years, the BJP ended that trend. All this shows that NDA stands for good governance, public service, and guaranteed development. I can now say with full confidence that under Nitish Kumar’s leadership, NDA will break its own record in Bihar and secure the biggest mandate ever," he said.

The Mahagathbandhan alliance on Thursday declared RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial face.

The PM also said where "lathbandhan" is trying to target and finish one another, NDA workers must work together, and must repeat the success of Maharashtra and Haryana.

Ahead of addressing the rally,  PM Modi paid homage to Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur in Samastipur district, and he later met his family members. He claimed that Mahagathbandhan leaders are out on bail in cases of corruption and are now trying to steal the Jan Nayak title, which is associated with Karpoori Thakur.

"...Law and order cannot exist where a party like the RJD is in power. Under the RJD rule, extortion, murder, ransom, and kidnapping flourished. The RJD's jungle raj ruined generations of Bihar. The biggest sufferers of RJD's misrule were my mothers and sisters, the youth, the Dalits and backward classes of Bihar, and the extremely backward classes of Bihar. During this jungle raj, the doors of police stations were closed to Dalits and the extremely backward classes...Naxalism and Maoist terrorism also flourished during the RJD's jungle raj...In 2014, you gave the NDA an opportunity in Delhi. I resolved to liberate the youth of Bihar and the country from this Maoist terror...We have broken the back of Naxalism, Maoist terrorism in Bihar. Very soon, the entire country, the entire Bihar, will be completely free from Maoist terror, and this is Modi's guarantee," said PM Modi.