Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday sounded the bugle for Bihar Assembly polls due later this year, urging the people to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by voting the BJP-led NDA back to power.

Addressing a rally in Gopalganj, a stronghold of the RJD, Shah also charged the opposition party’s president Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, both of whom had together ruled the state for 15 years, with running a “jungle raj”, alleging that murders, kidnappings and dacoities became an industry in the state while they were in power.