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The INDIA bloc may have decided to wait and watch developments unfolding in the NDA camp and “take appropriate steps at the appropriate time”, but some parties in the Opposition alliance, particularly the TMC and Shiv Sena (UBT), and, to some extent the AAP, are pushing hard for exploring options to shore up the bloc numbers to checkmate the BJP.
Amid hectic parleys on the composition of the incoming Union Council of Ministers led by Narendra Modi, the BJP leadership held a meeting Thursday with senior RSS functionaries including Arun Kumar who is the interface between the party and the Sangh.
The JD(U) on Thursday added review of the Agnipath Army recruitment scheme to its list of expectations from the new NDA government, apart from four ministerial berths. The party may also push for its long-standing demand of special status for Bihar, now that it is set to be a part of the government at the Centre.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders meeting on Wednesday sealed the fate of Narendra Modi's third term as prime minister after he was unanimously elected as the alliance leader. NDA partners Nitish Kumar and Chandra Babu Naidu also supported the Bharatiya Janata party stalwart as the alliance leaders. While showing support for Modi, the Janata Dal-United (JDU) supremo, Nitish Kumar, gave a two-word advise to the BJP leader- “Jaldi Kijiye".
Second only to the Telugu Desam Party in its heft in the NDA, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) plans to leverage the 12 seats it has won to negotiate plum portfolios in the cabinet, including the coveted Railways ministry, it is learnt.
While the NDA in Bihar maintained its supremacy in the Lok Sabha polls by winning 30 seats out of 40, the INDIA bloc managed to win 9 seats in the crucial heartland state as compared to just one seat that the Opposition alliance had won in the 2019 polls.
The TDP and JD(U), two parties key to the third successive stint of the NDA at the Centre, have decided to press for the post of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
NITISH Kumar’s string of flip-flops, combined with the decline in its electoral performance, had prompted many to see the JD(U) as a spent and desperate force in Bihar. So, when the results showed the JD(U) shoulder to shoulder with the BJP, at top of the tally in Bihar, with 12 of the 16 seats it contested in its kitty, the party was clear: it was “the end of isolation and restoration of respectability” for its leader Nitish.