{"id":328048,"date":"2020-10-28T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328048"},"modified":"2020-10-28T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:41:12","slug":"bihar-election-rally-pm-modi-warns-against-prince-of-jungle-raj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-election-rally-pm-modi-warns-against-prince-of-jungle-raj\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Election Rally: PM Modi warns against &#8216;Prince of Jungle Raj&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328049 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/modi-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/modi-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/modi-6-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/modi-6-529x420.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>As the first phase of voting is underway in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed rallies at Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur of Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He raised the Ram Mandir issue in his rally and also reminded the people about the &#8216;Prince of Jungle Raj&#8217; during the erstwhile Rashtriya Janata Dal&#8217;s 15-year-rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;A grand Ram Temple is being built in Ayodhya&#8230; those in politics who used to question us on the date (of temple construction) are now forced to applaud&#8230; This is the identity of BJP and NDA, we do what we promise,&#8221; said Modi in the Darbhanga rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur Modi said, \u201cYou can imagine what will happen to the funds for COVID-19\u00a0if they come to power&#8230; What else can people of Bihar expect from the &#8216;Yuvraj&#8217; of &#8216;Jungle Raj&#8217;, given their past record?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said, &#8220;The party, which is infamous for closing down industries of Bihar, is now promising development to the people of the state.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Forget about government jobs, if they come to power even private companies will flee from Bihar,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 71 seats of Bihar have gone to the polls today amid tight security and COVID-19 guidelines in place. The next two rounds will be held on November 3 and 7. The results will be announced on November 10.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first phase of voting is underway in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed rallies at Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur of Bihar. He raised the Ram Mandir issue in his rally and also reminded the people about the &#8216;Prince of Jungle Raj&#8217; during the erstwhile Rashtriya Janata Dal&#8217;s 15-year-rule. &#8220;A grand Ram Temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328050,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328048\/revisions\/328050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}