Prime Minister Narendra Modi tore into Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav while launching the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign for the upcoming assembly elections at a rally at Muzaffarpur.

Here are highlights of what he said:

* Do you know what is the true meaning of RJD? It is 'Rozana Jungle Raj ka Darr' (Daily Fear of Jungle Raj). The coming elections are about freedom from that.

* There was a time when Nitish asked me not to come to Bihar, but time has changed now. The previous PM didn't come, only did an aerial survey but my visit now is troubling the chief minister. If I was so bad you could have slapped me, strangled me but why did you strangle the development of an entire state, is this democracy?

* There is a problem in political DNA of Nitish Kumar.

* A Bihar leader made fun of my tweets earlier. Now, he tweets himself.