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The SP chief, while campaigning for Mahagathbandhan in Bihar’s Siwan, responded to the BJP leader’s remarks and dubbed them as “Gappu” and “Chappu.”
Akhilesh Yadav and Yogi Adityanath. (File)
Bihar Polls 2025: A war of words between Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath intensified in poll-bound Bihar on Monday after the latter targeted the opposition’s three leaders– Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav, and Akhilesh Yadav– by calling them ‘Pappu’, ‘Tappu’, and ‘Akku’.
The SP chief, while campaigning for Mahagathbandhan in Bihar’s Siwan, responded to the BJP leader’s remarks and dubbed them as “Gappu” and “Chappu.”
He said that the BJP’s campaign rhetoric is “nervous bluster” and claimed that the saffron camp-led NDA is trying to “mortgage Bihar.”
“The NDA wants to mortgage Bihar. They’re nervous. They’re worried because of Tejashwi’s promise of jobs, honouring 2500 women… This time, the people of Bihar will choose harmony…. ‘BJP Gappu ka mamla hai’… They said they will provide land on the moon, deposit Rs 15 lakhs in the bank account and create crores of jobs. Now they’re scared, because America is scaring them, so they resort to these tactics to avoid talking about their failures,” he said as quoted by news agency ANI.
#WATCH | Siwan, Bihar | Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav says, “The NDA wants to mortgage Bihar. They’re nervous. They’re worried because of Tejashwi’s promise of jobs, honouring 2500 women… This time, the people of Bihar will choose harmony…. ‘BJP Gappu ka mamla… pic.twitter.com/2c9beINgPT— ANI (@ANI) November 3, 2025
“The BJP has big ‘Gappu’ and their ‘Chappu’… We need to save Bihar from ‘Gappu’ and ‘Chappu’,” he added.
His remarks came hours after Yogi Adityanath lampooned the three opposition leaders as “three monkeys of INDI Alliance”.
Addressing an election rally in Keoti assembly segment of Darbhanga district, the senior BJP leader said the “three new monkeys” were unable to see, unwilling to hear and incapable of speaking about all the good work that was being done by the ruling NDA.
“Mahatma Gandhi’s three monkeys saw, heard and spoke no evil. But now, we have three monkeys of the INDI Alliance. The new monkeys are Pappu, who sees no good work done by NDA, Tappu, who cannot hear about it, and Akku, who will not admit to these while speaking,” said the firebrand leader.
He also alleged that the Congress, RJD and SP were embracing criminals in Bihar, allowing infiltrators to compromise with the state’s security.
These are the people who divide people in the name of caste and perpetuate riots, Adityanath alleged.
“Let us resolve that we shall neither be divided nor fight with each other (na batenge, na katenge),” he added.
The 243-member Bihar assembly will go to polls in two phases on November 6 and November 11, with results set to be announced on November 14.
(With inputs from agencies)
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben…Read More
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More
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