Bihar polls | Amit Shah accuses Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav of building ‘corridor for infiltrators’, slams Mahagathbandhan

Union Home Minister Amit Shah targeted Mahagathbandhan while campaigning in Bihar on Sunday and accused the Opposition alliance of protecting "infiltrators". Criticising Gandhi's 'Vote Adhikar Yatra', Shah said they will expel "every infiltrator from Bihar". 

Campaigning in Sasaram and Arwal on Sunday, Shah said, "Not long ago, Rahul Gandhi embarked on a major Yatra. This yatra was to save the infiltrators. Rahul Gandhi can undertake as many yatras as he wants, from Patna to Italy, but he won't be able to save the infiltrators. We will work to expel every single infiltrator from the country and Bihar."

Accusing Gandhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav of being "more concerned about infiltrators from Bangladesh" than Bihar's youth. The Union minister said Gandhi is trying to build a "corridor for infiltrators" while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to develop an industrial corridor in Bihar.

Shah said, "The Opposition's vote bank politics has led them to make attempts for building a ghuspaithiya (infiltrator) corridor, unlike Narendra Modi, who is setting up an industrial corridor." 

Raising 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," the home minister asserted.

"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," Shah added.

Targeting Gandhi over his mother 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."