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Bihar Bandh: BJP-led NDA leaders held a Bihar bandh protest across the state on Thursday. The ruling alliance called for a five-hour bandh in Bihar to protest against the alleged abuses hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother during the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in the state recently. The bandh will be led by BJP Mahila Morcha president Dharmshila Gupta, JDU Mahila Morcha president Bharti Mehta, LJP (R) Mahila Morcha president Shobha Sinha, RLMO's Smriti Kushwaha and HAM's women cell president Smita Sharma.

The NDA has clarified that the purpose of the bandh is to condemn the incident of abuse. The women workers of the BJP alleged that the indecent comment on PM Modi and his mother is also an insult to the democratic tradition.

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BJP leaders have been attacking the Congress after a purported video showed an unidentified person using a Hindi expletive against Modi from a dais raised during the yatra in Darbhanga town, from where Rahul Gandhi, her sister Priyanka Vadra and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had left for Muzaffarpur on motorcycles on August 27.

Addressing a joint press conference by leaders of all NDA constituents here, BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal told reporters, "All NDA leaders strongly condemned the abusive language used against the PM and his mother from the stage of the RJD and the Congress in Darbhanga during the recent 'Voter Adhikar Yatra'. This was not just an insult to Modi's mother but to all mothers. The women wings of the NDA constituents have decided to call a Bihar bandh on September 4 in protest against the 'abuses' hurled at the PM and his mother."

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Maintaining that the incident has disgraced Bihar, Jaiswal said, "A mother is considered a divine figure. Mothers who raise us are like God. How can a person even think of insulting them?". The purpose of the bandh is to protest against the incident, he said, urging the people of Bihar to "participate in the shutdown and stand against the act committed by the RJD and the Congress". JDU state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said during the Grand Alliance's 'Voter Adhikar Yatra', "indecent comments" were made from the RJD-Congress stage about Modi and "abusive remarks" were directed to his mother.

NH 31 Jam In Begusarai

Workers staged a protest by jamming NH 31 at Ballia station chowk. Bihar Sports Minister Surendra Mehta, JDU MLA Rajkumar Singh, BJP district president and workers came out on the road sloganeering 'Har Har Mahadev' slogans and stopped traffic movement to make the bandh successful. Women workers of NDA and other leaders carried out protest march in Sitamari, Nawada and other parts of the state. The NDA workers organised a bandh at Prajatantr Chowk in Nawada. BJP MLA Ramnarayan Mandal held a bandh in Banka.

Roads Empty In Bettiah

The clear effect of BJP's Bihar Bandh was visible in Bettiah. The roads are empty, and very few passengers are travelling. The speed of vehicles on NH has also come to a halt. NDA workers blocked the road and raised slogans at many places in Hajipur. NDA workers came out on the road on Thursday morning and blocked the road in various blocks of Vaishali district, including Hajipur city, Hajipur Muzaffarpur NH 22 Hajipur Mahanar Road. During the blockade, the workers raised slogans.

Tejashwi Slams NDA

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav accused the BJP-led NDA with the practice of "impure and insincere politics" by calling for a Bihar bandh in protest against alleged abuse hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late mother during the Congress' "Voter Adhikar Yatra".

The former Bihar deputy chief minister, who was with Rahul Gandhi, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, during the fortnight-long yatra, responded to questions from journalists about the five-hour-long bandh called today.

(With PTI/Jagran inputs)