Referring to Operation Sindoor, Shah said when the Congress-led alliance was in power at the Centre, “terrorists struck at will on our soil”. “In contrast, now we are beating up the terrorists inside their homes,” he said. “In future, if terrorists from Pakistan dare to carry out an attack again, bullets fired by them will be retaliated with mortar shells. Do you know where these mortar shells will be manufactured? In Bihar, in Sasaram, as Modi is trying to build a defence corridor here,” he added.

Taking a jibe at Sonia Gandhi’s Italian roots, Shah said, “Press the EVM button in favour of NDA candidates with such force that it sends shock waves as far as Italy.” Reacting to Opposition’s CM face Tejashwi and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, he said PM Modi could not ‘in seven births’ match the level of corruption allegedly committed by RJD leaders.

Shah addressed rallies in Sasaram and Arwal and appealed to voters to extend their support to NDA candidates to prevent return of ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar again.

Eviction drive against illegal settlers resumes in Assam

The Assam government on Sunday resumed its eviction drive against illegal settlers on forest land. The drive, carried out in some eastern, western and northern districts of the state earlier, had been halted in the aftermath of music icon Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore.