Former Union minister and a very prominent BJP leader, Smriti Irani, on Tuesday asserted that the NDA government in Bihar uplifted women from the shadow of helplessness and fear. 

With just a couple of days left for the Bihar assembly elections, Smriti Irani, while addressing a press conference at Patna, also said that she was pained over the RJD's appeal to the Election Commission to ‘stall’ the benefits of women's welfare schemes in Bihar, reported PTI.