New Delhi: Even as Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal mounts a serious challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, the latter is confident of winning the largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the state. Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday responded to Lalu's tweet of claiming to halt Narendra Modi's jaggernaut just like he had stopped LK Advani's rath yatra in 1990 by saying that the RJD will be decimated in the Lok Sabha elections.
Modi said that Lalu and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar don't have the guts and wherewithal to stop Narendra Modi's march to the prime minister's post. "Those dreaming of stopping Modi would be consigned to the dustbins of history," said the former Bihar deputy chief minister.
"The anti-BJP government at the Centre fell after Lalu stopped Advani's rath yatra. The BJP increased its strength in the Lok Sabha. Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the prime minister for 13 days. Then he became the prime minister for 13 months and after that he provided a strong government till 2004. In 1999 anti-BJP forces were routed and the NDA won 40 of the 54 seats in undivided Bihar," he said.
He also took a potshot at Lalu's February 2000 statement about a djinn emerging out of the ballot box saying that on May 16 when counting takes place, it will be a Modi supporter djinn that will come out.
Modi added that caste politics had failed in Bihar and all sections of the society have come out in large numbers to vote for the BJP which is seen in the high turnout.
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