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Over the past few days, there is a concerted attempt on the BJP’s part, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to refute the Opposition’s claims that the party is seeking to return to power with a bigger margin with the intention of “changing the Constitution”.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary is one of the BJP’s tallest OBC leaders in the state. In an interview with The Indian Express, he talks about the Opposition’s criticism of Narendra Modi for his comments on Opposition leaders who “cook mutton during saawan (monsoon)” or “eat fish during Navratri” — the PM’s dig at RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav — the Bihar caste survey, and his criticism of Nitish Kumar in the past.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which has announced a list of 22 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, seems to have fallen back on its trusted Muslim-Yadav combine to keep social combinations intact.
Former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who has defied his party Congress to file his nomination as an Independent from the Purnea Lok Sabha seat, has accused the RJD, the Congress’s senior Mahagathbandhan partner, of allegedly attempting to end his political career.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), whose chief Lalu Prasad’s “no family of his own” jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted the BJP to launch “Modi ka parivar (Modi’s family)” campaign, is now looking to turn the tables on the NDA. The coalition led by the BJP, which often uses “parivarvaad” (dynastic politics) to target the Opposition, has fielded 11 sons and daughters belonging to political families in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections. The NDA has declared candidates for all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Now that both the NDA and INDIA bloc have announced their seat-sharing formula, and their constituent parties have declared their candidates as well, two things are clearly emerging in the battle for Bihar. While the NDA, which had won 39 out of 40 seats in the 2019 polls, is banking mostly on sitting MPs, RJD chief Lalu Prasad has, expectedly, dictated the terms within the INDIA bloc as far as ally Congress goes.
There is an interesting story on how Rohini Acharya, second of seven daughters of former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, got her name.
AFTER 17 years in jail, Ashok Mahato appears to have hit some pretty lucky breaks. First came the well-received web series titled ‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’, based on his life of crime and terror in Sheikhpura and Nawada between 1990 and 2006, till conviction in a case of jailbreak. Then came the wedding bells – a year after his release – with Mahato, 62, getting married to the much-younger Kumari Anita, 46, in Bakhtiyarpur on Tuesday.