Today in Politics: PM Modi in Jharkhand, Bihar; Kharge and Priyanka in Karnataka

On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue with his campaign schedule in Jharkhand and Bihar.

In Jharkhand, he will address public rallies at 11am in Palamu and 12:45 pm in Lohardaga. The party has fielded sitting MP Vishnu Dayal Ram again from Palamu, while Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oraon is contesting from the Lohardaga seat, replacing its sitting MP Sudarshan Bhagat. These two seats alongside Singhbhum and Khunti go to polls in the fourth phase on May 13.

At a ‘Maha Vijay Sankalp Sabha’ at the Tata College Ground in Chaibasa, the PM on Friday again said that the Congress would allegedly distribute property should it come to power.

“The Congress wants to distribute your property to those indulging in ‘vote jihad’ but Modi will ensure that the poor, Dalit and tribals have the first right on the country’s property. No force on earth would be allowed to change or alter our Constitution,” he said.

After the two rallies in Jharkhand, the PM will be in Bihar for a public rally in Darbhanga at 3:30 pm. The BJP’s Gopalji Thakur who had won the seat in 2019 is contesting again.

Darbhanga had featured prominently in the news in August last year when a proposed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the town had become the centre of a war of words between the Opposition and the BJP.

Modi mentioned the Darbhanga AIIMS while addressing a meeting in West Bengal via video conference. Hitting out at the PM, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said, “What kind of invisible development politics is this where the Union Health Ministry has not yet finalised the site for AIIMS and the PM is saying that AIIMS has been opened there?”

Tejashwi claimed the state government had allotted 151 acres of greenfield land for the project