How Nitish Lost Momentum

The Next Chief Minister Of Bihar?
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Bihar Is Now 55-45

English: Bihar Districts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Upto coining the phrase Bihar@2025, he had it. Laloo had just come around. And his momentum was reflected in the in-fighting that had started in the BJP camp.

But then. Nitish has made no effort to elaborate on Bihar@2025. What is it? What is the roadmap? What is the vision? Just one word will not do. He might have organized a conclave, called in top minds in Bihar to pontificate. वैसे ही announce कर के छोड़ दिया। पुल का उदघाटन कर दिया, पुल बनाया नहीं।

Also, Laloo has gone to his old ways by haggling on what seats he should get. He wants to get most of the Yadav-Muslim seats. Whereas a good point to start would have been to let Nitish have 100 of the 112 seats he already has in his dicky.

Right now it is advantage BJP: 55-45.

The biggest mistake Nitish made was he took Advani's bait. When Advani warned of a possible "emergency," Nitish plunged head in and took a bite. That act is not Bihar@2025. A Bihar@2025 vision statement is one that makes peace with Narendra Modi being at the helm in Delhi, not because he is the better candidate, that is irrelevant, but because he is the choice of the people of Bihar. लोकतंत्र का मैंडेट है। जनता जनार्दन होती है। अगर आज नरेन्द्र मोदी दिल्ली में बैठे हैं तो बिहारियों का सबसे बड़ा योगदान है। उत्तर प्रदेश was a low hanging fruit, Bihar was the real battle in 2014.

It is like this. Laloo was doing excellent as Railway Minister but he had very few MPs. That is when he started saying how he wants to be PM and all. And Rahul Gandhi got rid of him. You don't become PM with 10 MPs, or 20. You have to self-assess, or Rahul is going to do it for you.

अभी नीतिश opposition लीडर बनने के रास्ते पर चल रहे हैं। सुमो का पलड़ा भारी पड़ गया है।

Grand coalition in Bihar has failed, says BJP

He said that JD(U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s slogan, “Barta Bihar, fir ayenge Nitish”, will now turn into “Darta bihar, ab nahin Nitish”.

Janata Parivar a Damp Squib: Amit Shah After BJP's Win in Bihar Legislative Council Elections

Mr Shah said, "The countdown to BJP's victory in Bihar has started today. The BJP-led NDA has won 13 out of 24 seats while it earlier held only five seats. There was a lot of hype around Janata Parivar in Bihar but people have proved that it is a damp squib."

BJP Deals Blow to Nitish-Lalu in Legislative Council Elections Months Ahead of Bihar Polls

As the BJP celebrated, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said, "This was not an election where the common people vote. It was a council election. If the BJP wants to be so happy about it, let them be. They anyway like to live in this fantasy world." ..... "This is not a semi-final to the assembly elections," said a spokesperson of his Janata Dal United. ..... Elected members of the assembly and local bodies like panchayats vote in the legislative council elections. ...... The JDU, which has won five of the alliance's 10 seats, reportedly assesses that Lalu Yadav, who has won four, has not been successful in transferring his votes to the alliance. That will be nagging worry as the assembly elections approach.

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Which Way Goes Bihar?

Map of Bihar showing location of Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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इस साल के बिहार के चुनाव के बारे में मैंने ३०-७०, ४५-५५, ५५-४५, ६५-३५, और अब ५५-४५ की बात की है। अभी जैसा कि मैं देख रहा हुँ नीतिश ५५ और बीजेपी वालों ४५ पर हैं। लेकिन ये बिहार है ("उड़ती चिड़िया को हल्दी लगाती है बिहार का वोटर!" ---- श्री लालु प्रसाद यादव) --- अभी स्थिति फिर भी काफी तरल है।

लालु ने फिर से बखेड़ा किया तो बीजेपी को फ़ायदा हो जाएगी। नीतिश को जो १०० सीट मिलना है, अभी जो उनके पास ११२ है कि क्या है उसी में से वो १०० रखेंगे। लालु इस बात को चैलेंज करने का नाटक करेंगे तो बीजेपी बगैर कैंपेन किए ही जित जाएगी।

लालु ने बखेड़ा किया और नरेंद्र मोदी दो हप्ते लगातार बिहार में बैठ गए, तो हो गइ दोनों की छुट्टी। दोनों को भुतपूर्व मुख्यमंत्री निवास मिला ही है, उसी में बैठेंगे। दोनों पास पास भी है।

नहीं अगर लालु एकता को बनाए रखते हैं, और नीतिश Bihar@2025 की बातको जनताको ठीक से समझा पाते हैं, और नरेंद्र मोदी बिहार में दो हप्ता बिताने के वावजूद बीजेपी बिहार में हार जाती है अगर तो नरेंद्र मोदी को राष्ट्रिय स्तर पर धक्का पहुंचेगा। इस बात को वो जरूर समझते होंगे। अगर नरेंद्र मोदी को लगा कि बिहार में जीत संभव नहीं तो वो शायद ज्यादा समय ना दें --- वैसे भी प्रधान मंत्री बहुत व्यस्त रहते हैं। दुनिया का सबसे व्यस्त आदमी।

Bihar@2025 की ताकत ये है कि आप जनताको सन्देश दे रहे हैं: (१) आप दिल्ली का सपना नहीं देख रहे हैं क्यों कि आप अच्छे हैं तो पटना में रहिए, आप दिल्ली जाइएगा कैसे? फिर एक और जितन को कुर्सी देके बिहार का मजाक उड़बाइयेगा? Bihar became a national joke all over again. पटना में आप जो कर सकते हैं वो और कोइ कर ही नहीं सकता, आप का कोइ उत्तराधिकारी नहीं है। रह गयी दिल्ली की बात तो वो आप जनता पर छोड़ दिजिए, लोकतंत्र है, जनताके निर्णय को स्वीकार किजिए और दिल से किजिए। और जनता ने निर्णय कर लिया है। मोदी। दिल्ली में मोदी अभी १५ या २० साल रहेंगे। आप को पटना में जितना रहना है रहिए। योग किजिए, सेहत बनाए रहिए, और आप भी रहिए १५ साल पटना में। कौन रोक रहा है? और आडवाणी से बचके रहिए। उनको प्रधान मंत्री न बनने का pain है, and misery loves company. व्यक्तिगत तौर पर आप को जिसे मानना है मानिए, लेकिन राजनीति में तो जनता को मानना होता है, जनताके मैंडेट को मानना होता है। (२) आप इंजीनियर पढ़े लोग हैं, physics के laws होते होते हैं उसी तरह politics के भी कुछ laws होते हैं। एक है: All Elections Are About The Future. जनता से बैन नहीं मांगिए, आगे क्या करिएगा वो कहिए। आगे १० साल में आप बिहार को कहाँ ले जाना चाहते हैं --- वो विज़न दिजिए।

ऐसा भी हो सकता है कि नीतिश जित जाते हैं, ५५-४५ की मार्जिन से। उसके एक साल बाद लालु झगड़ा पर उतर आते हैं और अलायन्स टुट जाती है, और बीजेपी फिर जुनियर मेम्बर बन के अलायन्स में आ जाती है। और नीतिश और सुमो मिल के फिर १० साल राज करते हैं, बिहार को एक Golden Age देते हैं, the only state in India growing at 20% per year, the state doing the best work in education and health.

बीजेपी एक बहुत बड़ा tent है और चुँकि भारत लोकतंत्र है, चीन तो नहीं कि कोइ गलत बोले तो उसको आप गोली से उदा देंगे। तो नरेंद्र मोदी को लोकतंत्र के परिधि को मानना पड़ता है। नहीं तो social issues पर मोदी और नीतिश दोनों के विचार एक जैसे हैं। Narendra Modi's strategy is to talk loudly about development to drown out the voices of the fringe elements inside his own party, and inside the RSS. नीतिश का पार्टी अलग है तो वो तो खुल के बोल सकते हैं और बोलना भी चाहिए। हम तो उनसे भी भी कड़ा बोलते हैं।

On things like land acquisition and labor mobility, and on bullet trains, Narendra Modi is right. Nitish Kumar has to come around to it. Narendra Modi is no corporate stooge. He realizes his government funds are very limited, and if he will rely only on his funds, he can not do much, he needs the private sector to do 70% of what he hopes to achieve. That is why he works so hard to be business friendly.

मोदी को दिल्ली की कुर्सी पर बिठाया ही बिहार की जनता ने। उत्तर प्रदेश तो आसान था, it was a low hanging fruit. बिहार कठिन था। मोदी को मानिए ना मानिए लेकिन बिहार की जनता को तो मानिए।

दिल्ली में नमो, पटना में नीकु + सुमो और वाशिंगटन में बिहारी बाबु सिन्हा। हीरो को एम्बेसडर बनाइए। न वाशिंगटन तो लंदन ही सही।

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Long Live The Roti?

हिन्दी: देश के उप राष्ट्रपति मोहम्मद हामिद अंसारी पटना में पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री सत्येन्द्र नारायण सिन्हा(छोटे साहब) की 94वीं जयंती पर आयोजित व्याख्यानमाला श्रंखला पर पूर्व सांसद किशोरी सिन्हा और मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार के साथ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bihar: BJP’s Mission 185 under threat as allies fight over seat sharing

The top leadership of the party is taken by surprise by the aggression being displayed by junior NDA allies with only marginal presence in the state. They have stopped being docile and it does not augur well for the BJP which is caught in its own low intensity conflicts over leadership. Poor handling of the situation could rip apart the umbrella alliance of caste-based outfits, rendering the NDA weak against the combined might of Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar........ As if offering himself as the NDA’s chief minister candidate was not enough, Upendra Kushwaha, leader of the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), has even come up with a formula for distribution seats among the allies. As per his formula, BJP should contest on 102 seats—the number of seats it had been spared by the JD(U) while both were parts of the NDA, 74 seats should be allotted to the LJP whereas the remaining 67 seats should go to his party. He even suggested that all the three partners should spare seats in a proportionate way in case Jitan Ram Manjhi becomes parts of the NDA. .... Kushwaha, a creation of Nitish Kumar ..... the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) headed by Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan too is trying to extract its pound of flesh from the BJP. The party with no legislator in the Bihar assembly has announced that it would oppose five candidates from Manjhi’s party ....... LJP, which corners five percent of votes on an average, is scared that Manjhi may emerge as a taller Dalit leader than him. Manjhi represents some 23 percent of Mahadalit population comprising 23 sub-castes of Dalits but he too remains to be tested as his newly-formed Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) is yet to join any election. Manjhi formed the HAM shortly after his rebellion against Nitish in February this year. ...... Right now Manjhi and Paswan, two coalition partners of the BJP, are now engaged in bitter verbal duels on the streets much to the merriment of the grand secular alliance. While the LJP has declared to oppose HAM candidates, Manjhi has dared Paswan to do that ....... Past records show that the BJP has grown up in Bihar more due to bitter rivalries among various splinter groups of the Janata family than its own strength. The party, which enjoys its support primarily among the upper castes and the Bania community, banked on the support of either Samata Party, the Janata Dal (United) or the LJP for its success. This is the first time in 20 years that it will be facing a united Janata family comprising Nitish and Lalu with the Congress and the NCP on their side.

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नीतिश और लालु को अनुशासन दिखानी होगी

First President of India Deshratna Dr Rajendra Prasad,Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru & Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Dr Anugrah Narayan Sinha at Anugrah babu's residence in Patna(Bihar) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Sitting L to R)Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Sinha during Mahatama Gandhi's 1917 Champaran Satyagraha (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Bihar Districts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"उड़ती चिड़िया को हल्दी लगाती है बिहार का वोटर!"
---- श्री लालु प्रसाद यादव

नीतिश और लालु को अनुशासन दिखानी होगी। अभी देश में सिर्फ thoughtful Opposition के लिए जगह है। जब तक देश में गरीबी है। नहीं तो मैं चाहुँगा मोदी को राज्य सभा में भी बहुमत मिल जाए।

३०-७० पर थे दोनों जब झगड़ रहे थे। झगड़ा खत्म हुवा तो ४५-५५ पर आए। Bihar@2025 कहा तो ५५-४५ पर आए। बीजेपी कैम्प में झगड़ा शुरू हुवा तो इनका पलड़ा भारी पड़ा, ये ६५-३५ पर पहुँच गए। लेकिन अभी समय है, बीजेपी वाले वो झगड़ा सुलह कर लेते हैं और जितन और पप्पु को भी साथ ले लेते हैं तो फिर ५५-४५ पर शायद आ जाएँ।

Bihar@2025 is key. वो मैसेज जितना बुलन्द रहेगा नीतिश की स्थिति उतनी ही मजबुत है।

लेकिन ग्रोथ रेट को hurt करने वाला कोइ काम ना करें। गरीबी को कब तक कायम रखे रहिएगा?

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कुशवाहा

English: Map of Bihar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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According to BJP insiders, Thakur's statement is a reflection of a deep-rooted tussle between leaders of upper castes and OBCs within the party...... In his early 80s, Thakur belongs to the powerful landed upper caste Bhumihars, who are said to be overwhelmingly backing the BJP in post-Mandal politics in the state. ...... "The BJP is likely to announce the name of former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi as the chief ministerial candidate soon," a BJP leader close to Sushil Modi said. ....... Sushil Kumar Modi, who is from a backward caste, is the most influential face of the BJP in Bihar and commands respect even among the upper castes, say some leaders. ....... However, the former Bihar deputy chief minister's disadvantage lies in the fact that two BJP leaders from the backward caste are dead set again .. .... "The BJP in Bihar is a divided house. To project a leader from either the OBCs or the upper castes as a chief ministerial candidate will antagonise the other group. The BJP is not in a position to project any one person against Nitish Kumar, who was declared chief ministerial candidate by the alliance of Janata Dal-United, Rastriya Janata Dal, the Congress and National Congress Party," said a senior BJP leader, who did not wish to be named. ....... In the caste-ridden Bihar politics, there are over half a dozen leaders from the upper castes and the backward castes who have staked claims as chief ministerial candidate of the BJP. "All of them are lobbying hard," the BJP leader said.

कुशवाहा को दिल्ली में मन नहीं लग रहा होगा। गुमनाम रहते होंगे। मीटिंग अटेंड करते होंगे तो कितनों को पता भी नहीं चलता होगा कि ये कौन हैं। तो सोंच रहे होंगे दिल्ली से पटना शिफ्ट हो जाते तो थोड़ा visibility बढ़ जाता। उनको कुर्सी भी खाली ही दिख रहा है। सुशील मोदी इंटरेस्ट नहीं दिखा रहे है -- क्या बात है? तो उन्होंने अपने पार्टी में unanimous resolution पास करबा लिया।

 ये कोइ लालु यादव तो नहीं हैं कि जहाँ जाते हो वहाँ टीवी क्यामेरा वाले लोग पिछा कर रहे हो।

जब नाव डगमगाता है तो कितनों को पता भी नहीं चलता। कुछ को लगता है तैराकी का मौका मिल रहा है। देखते देखते कोइ सीपी ठाकुर नाम का तैराक भी सामने आ गया। ये ठाकुर तो आडवाणी से भी सीनियर लगते हैं। अडवाणी के गुट के तो नहीं?

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