“Along with scrapping reservation, in the rule of BJP and RSS, Dalits who are beneficiaries of reservation are being set on fire”, Prasad said in another tweet.
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He believes that neither NDA nor the grand alliance will get a clear majority and hopes to push his case for the top job in the state in such a scenario.
On Thursday, he will rest although he will meet supporters at his residence here, an official close to him said.
He also said that there is no Third Front in Bihar and the electoral fight in Bihar is a direct one.
Bollywood veteran and BJP MP Hema Malini said on Wednesday that Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad would have to wait until November 8 to know the victor of the Bihar Assembly elections.
Addressing a gathering in Yadav-dominated Ghoshwari- Baijna area in Mokama, he says, “Without Pappu Yadav, nobody will be able to form a government”. I appeal to people to save the mechanism of reservation through their vote.
The RJD chief has made reservation issue a major poll plank of his party in context of the remarks of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who had pitched for a review of the reservation system.
Bihar being in the grip of a Dusshera festival mood, leaders of rival political groups including RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav today used examples of slaying of Ravana to attack each other.
He said he meant to say that communal politics would meet its death in Bihar elections.
Observing that India was standing at crossroads, the RJD chief said that he had made a prophetic statement a year ago telling people that it was for them to decide whether the country would stay together. It is an opportunity for those who want to save reservation.
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53-year-old Pappu Yadav spent over five years in jail between 2008 and 2013 as a life term convict in the cases before being acquitted by the High Court.
