You are alive because of PM Narendra Modi: Bihar BJP leader Ram Surat Rai tells crowd

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bihar minister Ram Surat Rai is in the spotlight for his effusive praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"If you all are alive today, it is because of Narendra Modi," Rai purportedly told a crowd in a video that has now gone viral.

"Look at the devastation wrought by Covid in Pakistan and elsewhere. We were saved by Modi's vaccine and his deft handling of the economy," the minister for revenue and land reforms was heard saying in the video before a small crowd, under a thatched roof.


According to PTI, the video was likely shot last week in Muzaffarpur district to which Rai belongs.

Earlier, Ram Surat Rai created a controversy during anti-Agnipath protests when he equated arsonists with "aatanki" (terrorists), much to the annoyance of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), which had taken a sympathetic view of the agitation.

Last month, his outbursts against the CM's veto on transfers and postings of more than 100 officials he had cleared, also made headlines.




With PTI inputs