PM cancelled Bihar tour fearing BJP defeat in Bankipur bypoll, says Tejaswi

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “cancelled his tour of Bihar” upon realising that the student unrest and the “growing unpopularity” of his government would lead to the BJP’s defeat in the Bankipur assembly bypoll.

There has been no word from the BJP government in the state on the PM’s tour.

However, Yadav, who is the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly, claimed that Modi had planned to visit the state



to inaugurate a bridge.

Reacting to the BJP’s intensive campaign for the July 30 bypoll to the assembly seat vacated by its national president Nitin Nabin, the RJD leader said, “It is a high-stakes battle that they (BJP) are certain to lose.”

“People might not be aware that the Prime Minister had planned to chip in. He was scheduled to visit Bihar to inaugurate a bridge, but he cancelled his tour upon realising that his party was going to lose,” Yadav alleged.