'Maulana' Tejashwi Yadav playing communal politics sensing defeat in Bihar polls: BJP

New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over his remarks on the Waqf Act, calling him a "Maulana" and accusing him of trying to polarise the society in Bihar on communal lines sensing opposition Magathbandhan's "imminent" defeat in assembly polls scheduled later this year.

Yadav on Sunday claimed that the ruling NDA in Bihar was "on its way out," and the new government in the state led by the opposition alliance will "consign to the dustbin" the Waqf Act brought by the Narendra Modi dispensation at the Centre.

The RJD leader was addressing a 'Save Waqf, Save Constitution' rally at Gandhi Maidan in Bihar's capital, Patna.

Terming Yadav's remarks "provocative" and "communal", BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said, "Tejashwi Yadav, the opposition leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister who failed in class ninth, was telling yesterday that he will throw the Waqf (Amendment) Act to the dustbin," "I ask Tejaswi Yadav, a 'namazwadi', Maluna and messiah of those who do appeasement, have you ever read the Constitution? Have you ever fulfilled the basic spirit of the Constitution?" he said, asking, can any state government trash a law passed by Parliament.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, Bhatia said the Waqf law, which was passed by Parliament, is subjudice in the Supreme Court and accused Yadav of disrespecting the apex court by making such remarks about the law.

"Elections are yet to be announced, but what is in the heart of the RJD, Tejashwi Yadav and Lalu Prasad? It's communal politics," he charged.

"We will say Constitution, Constitution, Constitution. They will say Sharia, Sharia Sharia, polarisation, do Hindu-Muslim, sow seeds of communalism. These people want communal riots," he added.

Bhatia alleged that Yadav's "provocative communal statement" about the Waqf law was made with "sole objective" to divide the society and called the the opposition's Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) in Bihar "anti-Constitution, anti-democracy, anti-Ambedkar." He also accused the RJD leader of showing "anarchic tendency" and said the NDA will not let the opposition alliance succeed in pushing its "poisonous" agenda.

"What does 'jungalwaad', jungle raj look like? Jungle raj looks exactly like Tejaswi Yadav and Lalu Prasad," Bhatia said.

"Under the first rule of jungle raj, the Constitution and law are torn apart, Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitution is shredded. And, (that) is exactly what Tejashwi Yadav is doing while being in the opposition," he charged.

Bhatia said that people have seen jungle raj in Bihar during RJD and rejected it, and would continue to do so as they want development in the state.

"You will not come to power for the next 50 years," he said, asserting that the NDA will return to power in Bihar after winning the assembly elections due later this year. PTI PK AMJ AMJ