A day after Narendra Modi reached out to Bihar's Yadava voters introducing himself as a native of the land of Lord Krishna, RJD chief Lalu Prasad hit out at the Prime Minister, calling him “Kaliya Naag”, a mythical serpent the Hindu God had slain, and asserting “we will crush him”.

“Krishna had slain Kaliya Nag. It has been reborn as Narendra Modi and is biting entire Bihar. We Yaduvanshis (people belonging to the Yadav clan) will crush him again and uproot his party from the state,” Prasad told reporters as he began a day-long fast for the release of caste census figures, accusing the Centre of suppressing it.