Speaking at the 21st foundation day function of his party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said that India is facing an emergency like situation under the rule of NDA government.
He expressed his concern saying that country will suffer from undeclared emergency, in a worse manner that it had suffered during the emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Attacking the BJP-led government at the centre, he mentioned the recent cow vigilance incident and said that the situations prevailing in the country would sure lead to bad times.
The RJD chief also spoke about the mega rally being organised on 27 August against the BJP and said that he is making tremendous efforts to get the BSP chief Mayawati and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav together to join the rally. He said that if these two parties come together and join the Mahagathbandhan, defeat of BJP inn the next Lok Sabha polls due in 2019 is affirmed. He said that BJP won the election in 2014 because the Oppositions were not united that time, but the the situation can be rectified if the parties come together now.
He also accused BJP of nominating a dalit, Ram Nath Kovind for the presidential polls, saying that Kovind belonged to the Kori caste in Gujarat (an OBC), which comprised almost 18% of the population. Modi has tactfully nominated Kovind to win the votes of Kori community in the 2019 polls. In addition to this he said that Meira Kumar belonged to an all-India Dalit class. He further added that, even if the congress would have supported the NDA candidate, he would never back Kovind because he was strictly against the communalism and fascism ideology of the BJP and RSS.
As the hearings of cases filed against Lalu Prasad Yadav regarding the four fodder scam is speeding up, which might result in putting him behind the bars, he urged that even if he was not present for the rally, all the RJD workers and leaders should organise the rally as if it was the marriage of their son or daughter. Prominent leaders of non-BJP parties would be attending the rally along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Yadav concluded saying that this rally will show a new direction to the country as Mahatama Gandhi had done by launching the Champaran Satyagraha against the British from Bihar.