Bihar Assembly polls: Nitish launches marketing campaign, takes swipe at Lalu for doing nothing for ladies

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) charged his arch-rival Lalu Prasad with doing “nothing for women” whereas in energy, and propping up spouse Rabri Devi when the cost sheet within the fodder rip-off triggered him to step down.

The JD(U) president, who’s looking for a report fifth consecutive time period in workplace, was addressing his maiden election rally in Minapur constituency of Muzaffarpur district, the place he additionally mentioned he was disillusioned with the RJD, headed by Prasad, after two short-lived alliances, and vowed to stay with the NDA.

Speaking about his authorities’s thrust in girls’s empowerment, as witnessed within the formation of self-help teams on a big scale and the not too long ago launched Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, as a part of which ₹10,000 every have been transferred into accounts of multiple crore beneficiaries, Kumar drew a distinction with the earlier regime.

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“Did the ones in power do anything for women? They could not have cared less. Only when, after seven years of chief ministership, a situation came where stepping down could not have been avoided, the wife was installed,” mentioned Mr. Kumar, with out mentioning his detractors by title.

Mr. Prasad, who turned the Bihar chief minister in 1990, occupied the publish until 1997 when his spouse, a homemaker who was until then not identified to have a flair for politics, was appointed to the highest publish, in a transfer that had triggered an enormous controversy in these days.

Mr. Kumar, who, in alliance with the BJP, defeated the RJD in 2005, additionally recalled his alliances along with his arch-rival’s celebration, first in 2015 after which once more in 2022, each of which lasted for lower than two years.

Mr. Prasad’s son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav, who’s at present the chief of the opposition and the NDA’s principal challenger, had served because the deputy CM on each events.

Mr. Kumar mentioned, “Because of circumstances, I had to tie up with those people, but it did not take me long to realise that they were good for nothing. Now I am back (in NDA) for good.” Mr. Kumar additionally spoke at size about efforts made by his authorities to enhance infrastructure, schooling and healthcare within the state, whereas lauding the Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre for its cooperation.

He additionally underscored that “an atmosphere of terror” had prevailed in Bihar, due to poor legislation and order and alleged patronage to criminals by the powers that be, till he took over.

“But now, it is for all to see how much things have changed. Even disputes between Hindus and Muslims have come down because we were sensitive to needs like fencing of religious places of both faiths”, mentioned Mr. Kumar.