Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, October 5
“BJP se bair nahi, Nitish teri khair Nahi (We have no enmity with BJP, but will not spare Nitish),” the LJP slogan reads much between the lines.
By putting guns on the shoulder of LJP president Chirag Paswan, BJP is intensifying attack on chief minister Nitish Kumar as the first phase of the election starts in Bihar.
Chirag on Monday cautioned the youths against voting for the JDU led by Nitish Kumar as he alleged it would result in more migrations from Bihar.
Chirag, who had been attacking Nitish Kumar since February, today said a vote to JDU would be a waste of valuable Votes. In a letter to the electorate, he said Nitish failed on all fronts in his tenure and promised a better future for them once the LJP-BJP was voted to power.
On Sunday, the resolution passed by the LJP parliamentary board alleged the JDU led government betrayed the people who had voted it to power in 2020. It said the JDU would be out of power after the assembly election.
Chirag had been attacking Nitish on different charges since February and had publicly admitted there was no conversation with the chief minister since then. He had criticised the handling of migrant workers problems and regretted Nitish had opposed return of Bihari migrants during lockdown.
On September 7, he had written a letter to chief minister opposing his announcement to give government jobs to one member of the family of schedule caste and tribe following their murder. Chirag had asked CM to implement the decision with retrospective effect from February, 2005 when Nitish took over as the CM first time and called it an election stunt.
According to the JDU leaders, Chirag is getting strong support from the BJP in his attacks on the chief minister and the decision of LJP to field its candidates against the JDU candidates only smacked of political conspiracy between BJP and LJP.
Chirag had criticised the Chief Minister and at the same time praised the Prime Minister saying LJP wanted to strengthen Narendra Modi.
In the first virtual interaction with the state party leaders, BJP general secretary Bhupinder Yadav had exhorted the party workers to ensure BJP was able to get substantial seats in the state assembly to facilitate it to form government on its own, like Assam, Himachal Pradesh and UP. He had regrets in the Hindi belt, chief ministers were of BJP barring Bihar.
By putting LJP against the chief minister and making threat to his continuation in the chair, BJP is aiming at taking revenge of the insult meted to Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders in 2013 by Nitish Kumar who had withdrawn dinner invitation to them at CM bungalow in protest against Nitish-Modi pictures displayed in the newspapers and hoardings. Nitish had dropped the BJP ministers from his government without notice and formed a new government in alliance with RJD and Congress.
IN 2005 too, LJP had prevented Nitish Kumar from getting a vote of confidence in the state assembly and his government lasted six days only. Then LJP had senior Nitish colleagues like Ramashyara Prasad Singh, Narendra Singh, Ranjan Prasad Yadav in its team. Forward caste voters who were unhappy with the Lalu-Rabri regime had supported LJP. A repeat of 2005 is expected in 2020 too as LJP has decided to field a large number of upper castes leaders as its candidate even by borrowing from BJP.
Patna, October 5
“BJP se bair nahi, Nitish teri khair Nahi (We have no enmity with BJP, but will not spare Nitish),” the LJP slogan reads much between the lines.
By putting guns on the shoulder of LJP president Chirag Paswan, BJP is intensifying attack on chief minister Nitish Kumar as the first phase of the election starts in Bihar.
Chirag on Monday cautioned the youths against voting for the JDU led by Nitish Kumar as he alleged it would result in more migrations from Bihar.
Chirag, who had been attacking Nitish Kumar since February, today said a vote to JDU would be a waste of valuable Votes. In a letter to the electorate, he said Nitish failed on all fronts in his tenure and promised a better future for them once the LJP-BJP was voted to power.
On Sunday, the resolution passed by the LJP parliamentary board alleged the JDU led government betrayed the people who had voted it to power in 2020. It said the JDU would be out of power after the assembly election.
Chirag had been attacking Nitish on different charges since February and had publicly admitted there was no conversation with the chief minister since then. He had criticised the handling of migrant workers problems and regretted Nitish had opposed return of Bihari migrants during lockdown.
On September 7, he had written a letter to chief minister opposing his announcement to give government jobs to one member of the family of schedule caste and tribe following their murder. Chirag had asked CM to implement the decision with retrospective effect from February, 2005 when Nitish took over as the CM first time and called it an election stunt.
According to the JDU leaders, Chirag is getting strong support from the BJP in his attacks on the chief minister and the decision of LJP to field its candidates against the JDU candidates only smacked of political conspiracy between BJP and LJP.
Chirag had criticised the Chief Minister and at the same time praised the Prime Minister saying LJP wanted to strengthen Narendra Modi.
In the first virtual interaction with the state party leaders, BJP general secretary Bhupinder Yadav had exhorted the party workers to ensure BJP was able to get substantial seats in the state assembly to facilitate it to form government on its own, like Assam, Himachal Pradesh and UP. He had regrets in the Hindi belt, chief ministers were of BJP barring Bihar.
By putting LJP against the chief minister and making threat to his continuation in the chair, BJP is aiming at taking revenge of the insult meted to Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders in 2013 by Nitish Kumar who had withdrawn dinner invitation to them at CM bungalow in protest against Nitish-Modi pictures displayed in the newspapers and hoardings. Nitish had dropped the BJP ministers from his government without notice and formed a new government in alliance with RJD and Congress.
IN 2005 too, LJP had prevented Nitish Kumar from getting a vote of confidence in the state assembly and his government lasted six days only. Then LJP had senior Nitish colleagues like Ramashyara Prasad Singh, Narendra Singh, Ranjan Prasad Yadav in its team. Forward caste voters who were unhappy with the Lalu-Rabri regime had supported LJP. A repeat of 2005 is expected in 2020 too as LJP has decided to field a large number of upper castes leaders as its candidate even by borrowing from BJP.
