Violent protests against the Agneepath scheme for recruiting into the armed forces may have subsided within a week of the blast in Bihar, but the squabbles between Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and ally BJP cast a long shadow over the alliance. has cast. ,
The JD(U), which has taken the BJP’s criticism of the administration for its handling of last week’s looting as a disgrace to its leader, is now pushing for reviving the coordination committee that was a part of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era. was present during and served as a platform. Where differences between allies were resolved.
“At that time the NDA coordination committee was headed by our leader George Fernandes. We met every month. Now, in the absence of such a platform, people express their differences to each other in front of the media,” JD(U) chief national general secretary KC Tyagi told PTI.
Tyagi also took strong objection to “all the time undermining our leader by the second rung BJP leaders in Bihar”, adding that “no one in JD(U) has ever been disrespectful towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. “. “Both the parties have different ideologies. But often BJP leaders express their ideological position in a way that tends to taunt us and our leader,” Tyagi said, citing examples of the Population Control Bill, Uniform Civil Code and a nationwide NRC.
Veteran JD(U) leaders also seem to be annoyed with the swagger that many BJP leaders display by showing their status as a numerically superior alliance partner.
He wants to remind the BJP that the announcement of Kumar as the chief ministerial candidate during the assembly elections in November 2005 had helped the NDA secure a decisive victory and made Lalu Prasad look invincible.
He also objected to the argument of some BJP leaders that Kumar, who had formed an alliance with Prasad a few years back, was an unreliable ally, saying, “In the 2010 assembly elections, we won 115 seats, just seven short of an absolute majority. Had won We could have destroyed the BJP in an attempt to reduce it and still managed to form the government. But we didn’t do that.”
Three years later, with the rise of Narendra Modi, the then chief minister of Gujarat, who was considered highly controversial for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots, came in for allies like Kumar, who have cultivated a “secular”. image.
“BJP leaders of Bihar should also know” Nitish Kumar Did not want to become CM for the fourth time in a row. He should have known that he agreed only after being pressurized by his party’s top leadership in Delhi to continue”, said Tyagi, who is himself based in the national capital.
He also referred to the “conspiracy hatched with the help of Chirag Paswan”, which caused the JD(U) to lose its senior alliance partner status after the 2020 assembly elections. Though Tyagi did not put it in so many words, it has been a strong feeling in the JD(U) rank and file that Chirag started his rebellion against the Bihar CM with the tacit approval of the BJP.
Chirag, the son of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan and the party’s president till Partition last year, was a self-styled godman of the prime minister. Narendra Modi Which he used to compare with Lord Rama, comparing him with Hanuman from the point of view of devotion. Incidentally, now abandoned by the BJP, which has embraced his renegade uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras and made him a Union minister, Chirag has since split from the BJP and was also a staunch critic of the ‘Agneepath’ plan. .
The BJP, which fears the prospect of losing Kumar in the opposition camp in a state where it is yet to come, seems to be in a mood to mend fences. Everything is fine.
“There is no problem now. All our complaints have been resolved”, said state BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal, whose house was attacked by a protesting mob last week, after which he accused the administration of complicity. was.
JD(U) national president Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan accused Jaiswal of “losing his composure” and trying to “advise an experienced administrator like Nitish Kumar”. A multiple-time MP who became state president three years ago, Jaiswal is taking a stand on issues such as Bihar’s population growth and its poor development index, as exposed by the NITI Aayog, which instigates the JD(U), Which makes its leaders suspect that the ally was out to reprimand his leader.
Veteran BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who has served as Kumar’s deputy for over a decade, and is the only leader in the party, whom the CM is said to have fully trusted, on the current situation. express displeasure.
“This war of words must end on both sides. I have no doubt that this alliance will last for its entire five-year term. But the controversy sends the wrong signal,” he said.
Notably, the opposition RJD has been a little softer than before towards Kumar, in what is seen as a clear attempt to fish the NDA’s turbulent waters.
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