In a scathing attack on the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of decades of betrayal against the people of Bihar. Addressing a public rally in Karakat, the Prime Minister alleged that parties now invoking “social justice” had in fact kept Dalits, tribals, and backward communities in poverty and exclusion for years.

“Those who cheated Bihar the most, under whose rule the poor and deprived had to leave Bihar, today the same people are telling lies of social justice,” PM Modi said, slamming the Congress-RJD alliance for their past governance.

“For decades, the Dalits, backward classes, and tribals did not even have toilets... They were not even allowed to enter banks,” he stated. “Was this plight, pain, and suffering of the people of Bihar the social justice of Congress and RJD?”

The Prime Minister went further, accusing Congress and RJD of humiliating Bihar on the global stage. “Congress and RJD used to bring foreigners to Bihar to show them the poverty in the state,” he said, adding that these parties had weaponised the misery of the poor for political gain.

With elections nearing, PM Modi said the opposition was trying to revive lost narratives. “Now, when Dalits, the deprived and the backwards society, have left Congress because of its sins, they are remembering social justice to save their existence.”

He contrasted this with the NDA’s approach, saying, “The country saw a new dawn of social justice in the era of NDA,” and claimed the government under his leadership had empowered the marginalised through housing, sanitation, banking access, and welfare schemes.