The main Opposition to @NitishKumar in #Bihar? It is not Lalu or his gathbandhan, it is @narendramodi and @BJP4India
Here’s why:
telegraphindia.com/india/bihar-as…
Here’s why:
telegraphindia.com/india/bihar-as…
“The BJP is wise to Nitish’s low strike-rate record and will most likely work to trip its ally’s Assembly numbers even as it keeps the pretence of being part of the Nitish-led NDA.
Paswan’s LJP is not the only move the BJP has made to that end.”
Paswan’s LJP is not the only move the BJP has made to that end.”
“The creation, overnight, of a third alliance between Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP and Mayawati’s BSP, and the sudden withdrawal of Mukesh Mallah’s VIP, a not insignificant vote-splitter, from the RJD gathbandhan, are clearly BJP pawn-play to corner Nitish on the Bihar chessboard.”
“Long reined-in, the BJP’s renewed aspiration to pilot power in Bihar has been fed in no mean way by the limp RJD-led gathbandhan. Two other factors fuelling the BJP leadership’s sense that this is its hour in Bihar and it should make a grab for it.”
Despite the sinking economy and the Covid-related disaffection among returning migrants, Prime Minister Narendra Modi retains his high levels of individual approval. And there’s no love lost for Nitish in the BJP brass...they believe now’s their chance to go for his jugular.
Sunday’s decision by Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP) to reject Nitish as leader of the NDA in Bihar is a proxy ploy by the BJP not only to erode Nitish of agency as unchallenged alliance leader, but also to chip away at his tally in the new Assembly to a degree that he is left emaciated.
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