GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 10th Oct. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday launched a stinging attack on the Modi government and urged opposition parties to band together to fight the BJP, saying they must decide whether they are with or against the ruling party (BJP).
While Rashtriya Janata Dal president Prasad accused the BJP of “communalizing” society and “destroying” the Constitution, Yadav mentioned a ruling party MP’s alleged speech calling for a boycott of Muslims and wondered what would happen if Indians working abroad, many of whom are in Muslim countries, were treated similarly.
In his speech at the party’s open convention, which ratified Prasad’s election as its president again, Yadav continued with his efforts to shed its image of an organisation confined largely to a Muslim-Yadav base as he asked the packed crowd of delegates at Talkatora Stadium to “bend” if needed to reach out to most backward castes and Dalits.
“You have to protect the last person in the queue. There is a need to change behaviour,” he said.
Rivals of the RJD have frequently linked the party’s rule to poor law and order and claimed that when it is in power, its supporters try to dominate other castes. “The RJD is a party of A to Z. It is a party for everyone,” Yadav said.
He accused the BJP of dividing society along communal lines in order to divert people’s attention away from real issues such as unemployment, rising prices, education, and health.
In a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said that while the BJP leader was the first in 75 years to rise from a tea shop to the highest executive office in the country, those with engineering and other degrees were forced to work in tea shops during his eight years in power.
He claimed that the country is being destroyed and that the RSS constitution is being imposed.
He called for non-BJP party unity, saying that all opposition parties and leaders must put aside their egos and personal interests to fight the ruling party.
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