Bihar’s Thakurganj, Katihar, Bajpatti: How NDA Won In Minority Areas & Flipped The Script

As Bihar entered its second phase of campaigning, the Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) went complacent, knowing the Muslim-Yadav combine’s trust in the Mahagathbandhan, knowing certain votes would go to Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).

PM Narendra Modi then took the fight to Bihar’s Muslim-dominated seats — Araria, Bhagalpur. Modi turned the spotlight on ‘infiltration’ and blamed the Mahagathbandhan’s ‘vote bank politics’.

“A major challenge stands before these efforts of ours. That challenge is of the infiltrators. The NDA government is engaged with complete honesty in identifying each and every infiltrator and deporting them from the country. But these RJD and Congress people are busy protecting the infiltrators," he said in Bhagalpur.

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