This story is from February 28, 2020

NRC and CAA anti-poor: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav

Incarcerated RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s younger son and leader of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Thursday said that Bihar has become the ‘epicentre of unemployment’. He said that no less than 7 crore Bihari youths have no work and largescale migration of work force was taking place.
NRC and CAA anti-poor: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
GAYA: Incarcerated RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s younger son and leader of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Thursday said that Bihar has become the ‘epicentre of unemployment’. He said that no less than 7 crore Bihari youths have no work and largescale migration of work force was taking place.
Addressing a public meeting at Sherghati, the younger Yadav scion said that CAA, NPR and NRC were just diversionary tactics to deflect attention from real issues, like unemployment and hyperinflation.
He also blamed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for strengthening the divisive forces in the country that culminated in communal riots in Delhi.
Tejashwi, who was in Sherghati as part of his ongoing ‘Berozgari Hatao Yatra’ alleged that the CAA was a sham aimed at causing religious divide. He also said that NRC was inherently anti-poor as the daily wagers living in slums, crores of homeless and people living in areas vulnerable to natural disasters like floods are the undocumented population of the country. “It is an invitation to chaos,” he said.
The RJD leader promised to fill all vacant positions in the state government and other bodies if his party came to power in the forthcoming assembly elections. Former speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary created ripples at the public meet by saying that political rumour mills were agog with speculation about 2015 type re-alignment of political forces in the state and return of CM Nitish Kumar to the Mahagatbandhan fold.
“If any such alliance was to take place, Tejashwi and not Nitish should be the CM face,” said Chaudhary.
The political realignment issue was also raised by RJD strongman and former minister Surindra Prasad Yadav. Accusing the Bihar CM of betrayal, the former minister who represents the Belaganj seat in the Bihar assembly, said that going by the CM’s track record and ‘politics of opportunism’ practised by him, any tie up with Nitish would be ‘politically counter-productive’.

“Mahagatbandhan in its present form is very strong,” Tejashwi said.
While both Surindra and Chaudhary spoke before Tejashwi, the former deputy CM did not make any response to the realignment story. Instead Tejashwi quoted statistics to claim that his party left a much stronger economy as compared to one that the party inherited. He also claimed that without increasing fare, Lalu pulled out Indian railways from ‘deep red’ and made it financially obese.
“The NDA government is now selling railway assets at throw away prices,” Tejashwi said.
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