Jitan Ram Manjhi had made the allegation on Friday night (File)
Patna:
Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday lashed out at Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for charging the newly shaped political social gathering with bribing voters in by-elections to 4 meeting seats of Bihar.
Mr Manjhi, who can be a former Chief Minister of Bihar, had made the allegation on Friday night, at a rally in Imamganj which has fallen vacant upon his election to Lok Sabha and from the place his daughter-in-law Deepa is attempting her luck because the candidate of his Hindustani Awam Morcha.
“The Jan Suraaj persons are making folks signal varieties pledging assist for the social gathering within the by-polls. The voters have been promised money reward of Rs one lakh every within the occasion of Jan Suraaj candidate’s victory”, Mr Manjhi had mentioned.
When requested in regards to the cost, Prashant Kishor, who was on the marketing campaign path in Tarari, shot again “Does Manjhi realise what he’s saying? In virtually each meeting section, there are about two lakh voters. If we’re promising to provide Rs one lakh to every of them, you are able to do the maths and work out the full sum concerned”.
Prashant Kishor added “if Manjhi is satisfied that we’re sitting on such an enormous pile of cash, then, being a Union minister, he ought to get the ED and the CBI unleashed after us. He must also draw the eye of the Election Fee”.
The political strategist turned activist claimed the 80 years outdated had suffered “a lack of psychological steadiness” on account of the realisation that “the actual combat in Imamganj is between RJD and Jan Suraaj”.
“For Manjhi, politics has been all about his household. However within the very constituency which he believes to be his stronghold, his personal daughter-in-law is struggling to be one of many essential contenders”, claimed Prashant Kishor.
The IPAC founder, who claims to have given up on political consultancy for good, floated the brand new social gathering earlier this month, vowing to win the Bihar meeting polls subsequent yr by itself steam.
The social gathering can be contesting the by-polls to all 4 meeting seats – Imamganj, Tarari, Belaganj and Ramgarh – which have been necessitated by election of respective MLAs to Lok Sabha.
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