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Reports of internal conflict within the ruling (NDA) in Bihar have emerged days after the results of Lok Sabha elections 2024 were announced followed by formation of the (BJP)-led coalition government at the centre.
As the BJP banks on its Narendra Modi card and the Opposition INDIA bloc frames its campaign around “saving democracy and the Constitution”, voters in South Bihar where polling will be held on April 19 largely deploy caste to spell out their choices.
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.
One-and-half months after crossing over to the NDA and taking charge as the Chief Minister of the new Bihar government, Nitish Kumar has undertaken his first Cabinet expansion, with 21 ministers including 12 from the BJP being inducted on Friday.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary launched a scathing attack against dynastic politics on Friday as Lok Sabha elections draw increasingly near. The senior politician contended that Lalu Prasad Yadav would not fare well in the upcoming polls with Nitish Kumar no longer there to extend a ‘lifeline’. The people of Bihar (and India as a whole), he insisted, would “give an account of all these people in 2024".
THREE RJD MLAs crossed over to the NDA while five absent JD(U) MLAs turned up with just a few minutes to go for voting, helping Chief Minister Nitish Kumar win the trust vote easily on Monday with 129 votes in its favour. There was no vote against, as the Opposition walked out before the voting.
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.
BJP state president and MLC Samrat Choudhary was on Sunday chosen the leader of the BJP’s legislature party, paving the way for him to likely become the deputy chief minister of Bihar.