SuMo rummages through Patna streets in NaMo’s name !

Patna(BiharTimes): The Bihar BJP is pulling all stops together to make party’s proposed Hunkar Rally on Sunday in which BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi will be storming Nitish Kumar’s bastion, but on Thursday what the people of Patna witnessed on the streets reminded them of RJD regime when led by a party leader hundreds of bikers tying bandana on heads had often been ransacking the city throwing general life out of gear. Hundreds of bike riding BJP youths led by party leader Shushil Modi created such scene in the name of inviting local people to attend the Hunkar Rally.

The senior state party leader and former deputy chief minister Shushil Kumar Modi on Thursday was out on roadshow to make an appeal to the residents of Patna to attend the proposed rally. Riding on NaMo Hunkar Rath Modi along with the local party MLA Arun Sinha was seen waving to the crowds while being escorted and followed by hundreds of youths wearing saffron bandana and noisy chants. Their speed of the bikes had virtually stormed the city roads throwing life out gear.

The bike rider’s horror show was so scary that people traveling on Nala road stood still while ruing cursing the state’s political future. Shushil Modi’s motorcade invited people’s attention but they drew parallel with the previous Lalu regime when such bike riders were often seen storming the streets of the city. All the city goers froze at the place where they were when the SuMo’s roadshow was enacted on the roads of Patna.

“Shushil Modi in his much vaunted enthusiasm to show his loyalty to Narendra Modi has reminded us of the previous RJD regime. Its not the way to scare the people of the state capital in the name of Narendra Modi. It may boomeranged”, said a shop owner of the Nala road. But, the BJP leader wearing fake smile on his face kept waving towards the same shop owners.

“If the situation is like this today just imagine what these leaders will do when Narendra Modi will come to power”, remarked a lawyer caught in the Modi’s motorcade. This is not the way to invite people…this is absolutely the Lalu-way, added sarcastically.

“Are we again returning back to RJD regime or has Shushil Modi joined Lalu’s brigade?”, asked a pedestrian who narrowly escaped the zooming speed of the bike riders. This correspondent has been witness to the scare roadshow of the state BJP leader Shushil Modi at Nala road when each and every person caught in the whirls were heard cursing the leader and the way he was inviting them for the rally.

The BJP leader Shushil Modi has been making road shows for the last four days in Jehanabad, Masaurhi and other parts of the state appealing people to attend the rally in huge number and also attacking the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for being “confused and diffused”.

But, his Patna roadshow with hundreds of biker’s gang zooming past on the roads appeared quite frightening and counter productive. The other state BJP leaders too came out to garner support for the rally but no such scene was seen with their cavalcade.

Meanwhile, at some point Shushil Modi talked to private news channels saying it was the road show to invite people for the rally which was going to be a “historic” one. “Its going to be a huge rally and we’ve booked all the transport buses and other means to ferry people to the rally ground. We’re short of vehicle now”, he said.

However, the common perception in Patna is that a mad rush could be seen between the state BJP leaders to be noticed in the eye of the team NaMo for their future political aspirations. “Everybody is busy putting hoardings, banners, arches and arch-gates with their large side cut-out of photos at every available place on the city roads”, said Rajendra Sinha, a city resident. They seem to be competing with each other throwing little respect to the city dwellers, said another, a doctor Atul Kumar in Rajendra Nagar.

Leadrs of the left party Communist Party of India [CPI] too have complained that their party flags for the Janaakrosh Rally, scheduled to be held on Friday, were snatched and uprooted from poles at many places by the BJP cadres for putting their own party flag. “Are we living in a fascist world of BJP?”, asked  a left leader.

Earlier, shopkeepers of Patna City had objected and asked the BJP leaders to move out their campaign van parked in front of their shops as it hampered their Diwali sale. “They have overtaken every available space in the area which has left no space at all for the visitors of the shop and the city goers. “Is this the way the party invites the business community to the rally by hampering their business?”, asks Alok Gupta of Patna City.