New Delhi: The Bihar election campaign heated up on Wednesday (October 29) with the opposition Mahagathbandhan kicking off its joint rallies addressed by Lok Sabha leader of opposition Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and the alliance’s chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav, while Union home minister Amit Shah also hit the campaign trail in the state.Launching a scathing attack, Gandhi while addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur’s Sakra said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was even “ready to dance” to get votes.On the other hand Shah hit out at the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for being dynastic parties and alleged that while both Lalu Prasad Yadav (RJD chief) and Sonia Gandhi (Congress MP) wanted to make their sons chief minister and prime minister respectively, no such vacancy was available.“He [Modi] only wants your votes. If you ask Modi to do drama for votes, he will. You can make him do anything for votes. You tell him ‘we are ready to vote for you, come and dance on stage’, and he will dance,” said Gandhi in Sakra.“You can make him do anything before the elections. After the elections Modi will not be visible, he will be seen attending Ambani weddings with those wearing suits and boots, not with farmers.”Gandhi also alleged that there were “two Indias”, one for the common people and the other for Modi, while referring to the Yamuna River in Delhi that was left polluted for common people while a separate pool was made for Modi by diverting water.“There are two Indias. One is for Modi ji. If he has to do Chhath Puja drama, then clean water and video cameras will come. And just metres away will be the reality of India. On one hand is Narendra Modi’s drama, Adani and Ambani’s India and on the other hand is the real India where there is dirty water, disease.”While launching the Mahagathbandhan’s joint manifesto on Tuesday, Yadav had accused the BJP of reducing chief minister Nitish Kumar to a “puppet”. Gandhi in his speech too stuck to the same line of attack and alleged that only Nitish’s face is being used while the remote control is in the hands of the BJP.“Nitish ji’s face is being used. The remote control is in the hands of the BJP. You should not think that the voice of the most backward people is heard there. Three or four people control it. The BJP controls it. They have the remote controller in their hands, and they have nothing to do with social justice,” he said.“I said in front of the prime minister in the Lok Sabha that you should conduct the caste census. He did not say a word. Whether it is in education, health, the bureaucracy or the judiciary, the BJP and Narendra Modi are against social justice. They don’t want it. The BJP is against social justice. They do not want it.”Both Yadav and Gandhi brought up migration in their addresses and said that if their alliance forms the government, Bihar’s youth will not leave the state.“You built Delhi, you worked in Gujarat and helped in Mumbai. Forget Indian cities, Dubai was built because of your hard work. Why can’t you do the same in Bihar?” said Gandhi.Yadav said that by the next Chhath Puja, Bihar will not see migration.“We will build a Bihar from where people will not need to migrate. Women suffer the most as someone’s son goes, someone’s husband,” he said.Meanwhile in Begusarai, Shah accused the Mahagathbandhan of promoting dynasts, saying that on the other hand the BJP has given tickets to the youth.“The BJP has given tickets to many youngsters. But Lalu ji wants his son to become the chief minister and Sonia ji wants her son to become the prime minister. But I want to tell them that neither the chief minister’s post is vacant in Bihar, nor is the prime minister’s post vacant in Delhi. Those who think of their own sons and daughters, can they think of Begusarai? Only Narendra Modi will think about Begusarai,” said Shah.Shah also took a swipe at Gandhi for being absent during the poll campaign and accused him of taking out a “Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra [‘Save Infiltrators Yatra’]” while referring to the Congress leader’s Vote Adhikar Yatra in the aftermath of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter rolls in Bihar.While the Election Commission had said that one of the reasons for the conduct of the SIR so close to the elections was, among other reasons, foreigners on the voter rolls, the poll body has not yet provided any figures of the number of such foreigners found at the end of the exercise on September 30.Shah however accused both the RJD and the Congress of protecting Bangladeshi “infiltrators” and promised that the BJP will remove them from Bihar.“Rahul baba had come here a month and a half ago. Now, after a month, he has come again today. When he came earlier, he had taken out a Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra. Today I have come to ask the people of Begusarai, should Bangladeshi infiltrators be included in the Bihar voter rolls?“Both Lalu and Rahul are protectors of Bangladeshi infiltrators. But today I am leaving with a promise to you that if you elect all of our candidates, the BJP will do the work of selecting and removing every infiltrator from the land of Bihar,” he said.The NDA has in its poll campaign referred to the RJD governments under Lalu and his wife Rabri Devi and alleged that voting for the Mahagathabandhan would bring back the days of “jungle raj” or lawlessness. On Wednesday too, Shah said that a vote for the RJD-Congress would mean “jungle raj”, while a vote for the NDA would lead to “Viksit Bihar” under Modi.“The upcoming Bihar election of 2025 is not about making someone an MLA, a minister or even a chief minister. This election is to save Bihar from jungle raj,” he said.“We have witnessed jungle raj before. Begusarai was once an industrial district, but one by one, all industries on this land disappeared. Bihar’s soil was soaked in blood because of heinous crimes. For 15 years, Lalu and Rabri devastated the land of Bihar. Now, after 20 years, that same jungle raj is returning in the form of Tejashwi and Rahul’s alliance.“People of Bihar, be careful, one mistake will push Bihar back by 20 years. But if you make the right decision, under the leadership of Modi ji, a ‘Viksit Bihar’ will be built.”