
Amit Shah promises big role for deputy Nityanand Rai at rally
Ujiarpur (Bihar): Just a day before his fate was to be sealed in EVM machines in Gujarat, home minister Amit Shah was busy in Bihar, campaigning for his deputy Nityanand Rai, a man he calls his «jigaree dost» (close friend).
Rai, minister of state for home and BJP's most prominent face in Bihar, is looking for his third straight win from Ujiarpur, which will go to poll in the fourth phase on May 13. He is taking on RJD's Alok Kumar Mehta who was elected to the Lok Sabha from this seat in 2004 but was defeated by Rai in 2014.
«You make him MP...I assure you I will make him a big man,» Shah exhorted a massive audience at a rally here on Monday.
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Projecting Rai as one among the top performing ministers in the Modi government, Shah recalled that the former had been spending sleepless nights in the control room during the Covid-19 pandemic.
«Kal mera yehan matdan hai. Phir bhi main 1500 km dur Ujiarpur aaya hun...isko jitane ke liye (There is polling in my constituency tomorrow. Yet I have come to Ujiarpur 1500 km away… I want to help him win this