'Bihar Police Tried To Stop Me': LoP Rahul Gandhi Calls NDA government 'Double Engine Dhokebaaz Sarkaar'

Patna: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called Bihar`s NDA government ‘Double Engine Dhokebaaz Sarkaar’  even as he addressed students from Dalit and backward communities at Ambedkar Hostel in Darbhanga by defying the district administration’ order.

Braving blistering sun, Rahul walked to Ambedkar Hostel and waved to the people standing on the roadsides after he was stopped by police before the programme venue.

The trouble started on Wednesday afternoon itself when the district administration refused to grant permission to the organisers to hold the party programme at Ambedkar Hostel. The district administration instead offered Town Hall as a new venue for the event, but Congress remained adamant to hold the programme at Ambedkar Hostel itself.

#WATCH | Bihar | Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "The Bihar Police tried to stop me. But they could not stop me because your power is watching over me. We told PM Narendra Modi that you have to conduct census... Under your pressure, PM Narendra Modi announced… https://t.co/xj9zlN7Mp8 pic.twitter.com/vGn6gIeMEo

— ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2025

बिहार में NDA की "डबल इंजन धोखेबाज़ सरकार" मुझे अंबेडकर हॉस्टल में दलित और पिछड़े छात्रों से बातचीत करने से रोक रही है।

संवाद कब से अपराध हो गया? नीतीश जी, आप किस बात से डर रहे हैं? क्या बिहार में शिक्षा और सामाजिक न्याय की स्थिति छुपाना चाहते हैं? pic.twitter.com/olYioTyeB1

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 15, 2025

Addressing Dalit and backward students, Rahul said that the government tried its best to stop me, but still he came to have a dialogue with them. He alleged that SCs, STs, OBCs, and EBCs were being subjected to torture in the entire country throughout the day, denying them education and leaking their question papers and spoiling their careers.

"We have made three demands: a caste census at the national level in the right manner based on the Telangana model, reservation in private colleges and universities, and to put pressure on the Bihar government to do it.

Talking to newspersons in Darbhanga, Rahul said, “NDA government is ‘double engine dhokebaaz sarkaar" in Bihar. It is preventing me from interacting with Dalit and backward students in the Ambedkar Hostel. Since when has dialogue become a crime? Nitish ji, what are you afraid of? Do you want to hide the condition of education and of social justice in Bihar?"