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Till only a few months ago, when the Janata Dal (United) was still part of the INDIA bloc, the central plank of its supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appeared to be the demand for a nationwide caste census on the lines of the one his government — then involving the Mahagathbandhan alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress and Left parties —conducted in the state.
Having worked behind the scenes with Tejashwi Yadav for more than a decade, the former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister’s political advisor Sanjay Yadav has been rewarded with a Rajya Sabha nomination. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) sprung a surprise by nominating the 41-year-old Yadav on Wednesday, leaving out retiring MP Aafaq Karim.
BJP veteran and seven-time Patna Sahib MLA Nand Kishore Yadav is all set to become the new Speaker of the Bihar Assembly.
As the Nitish Kumar government sailed through to a 129-0 majority in the trust vote on Monday after Opposition MLAs staged a walkout, three Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLAs and one from the Janata Dal (United)grabbed the limelight.
Amid allegations that both political alliances in Bihar — the ruling NDA with the JD(U), BJP and HAM(S), and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) with the RJD, Congress, and three Left parties — are trying to poach MLAs from each other’s camp, all political parties are set to issue whips for their legislators to vote in the February 12 trial of strength in the state Assembly along party lines or face disqualification.
With days to go for the Bihar trust vote on February 12, the NDA government led by Nitish Kumar and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) are engaged in mind games. Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary has yet to step down from his position, with the RJD saying that the Nitish government is “precariously placed” and hinting at more changes in political equations in the state. The BJP, meanwhile, has warned of “stern action” if horse-trading is attempted.
As BJP leaders from across India prepare to gather next month to receive the final blueprint for the party’s Lok Sabha election strategy, the party is confident that the nation’s mood is in its favour.
NITISH Kumar’s betrayal of his partner RJD — again — to stake claim to form a government with the BJP is a test for the leadership for the RJD’s young heir Tejashwi Yadav, who came into his own only in the 2020 Assembly elections, with the phasing out of Lalu Prasad, his ailing father and Nitish’s contemporary who has perhaps seen the JD(U) supremo do this enough times to not be fazed.