Patna, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday targeted PM Narendra Modi over his comment that Congress is snatching the quota of OBCs and diverting them towards its "vote bank", he attacked Bihar socialist leader Karpoori Thakur. Emphasised, who was given the Bharat Award by the BJP government. Ratna was in favor of reservations for all backward classes, regardless of religion.

Yadav, whose party RJD is an ally of the Congress, also asked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led JDU, which recently broke ties with the Grand Alliance and returned to the NDA, to clarify its stand on whether it would support Karpuri. Agree with Thakur's ideology. in this matter.

Former Deputy Chief Minister Yadav told reporters here, “The Prime Minister is not aware… He should know what Karpoori Thakur had said.The late socialist leader was in favor of reservation for all backward classes regardless of religion."

Yadav claimed that when Thakur first became the Chief Minister of Bihar, all backward classes in the state, irrespective of religion, had got reservation.

Prime Minister Modi, while addressing election rallies in Araria and Munger on April 27, had attacked the opposition, alleging that the Congress was trying to implement its "Karnataka model", which would give all OBCs, including Muslims, their 27 per cent reservation. An attempt is being made to rob. Their financial condition, in the list of backward castes”.

Notably, Thakur, a former chief minister of Bihar, had been a mentor to the JDU supremo as well as Yadav's father Lalu Prasad, who heads the RJD.Political analysts believe the OBC veteran's selection for the highest civilian honor earlier this year was aimed at winning over the OBCs and extremely backward classes to the BJP-led alliance.

He alleged, “Our Constitution and election process, everything is in grave danger. What happened in Surat... BJP won the Lok Sabha seat even before the voting... They want to snatch away the right of people to exercise their franchise.

He was referring to Mukesh Dalal, the BJP candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha seat, who was elected unopposed.

Asked about the four election rallies of BJP president JP Nadda and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in Bihar on Thursday, Yadav said, "It is not going to make any difference.They have already lost the electoral battle... They can placate (Donald) Trump or (Vladimir) Putin but nothing is going to change.”