BIhar CM Nitish Kumar
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, January 27: Bihar politics is poised for one more volte face. Over the last two decades, the leading political actors have acted as skilled gymnasts to somersault to extreme positions by smelling the changing fragrance in the electoral winds.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav has on several occasions came out with descriptions of his political peers which have seemingly been sagely. For late Ram Vilas Paswan, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s description of ‘Mausam Vaigyanik (weather scientists)” resonated for years. He also is credited to have described the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for possessing “teeth in his stomach with which he bites his friends”.
Tejashwi Yadav may learn the hard lessons of the Bihar politics if the state chief minister demonstrates his gymnastick skills to embrace the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week. The chief minister will trash his remark of recent months that he would “prefer death to joining hands with the BJP”. That was stated after Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah had reiterated that Kumar and his party, the Janata Dal (United), would not be taken in the NDA fold.
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is credited to have said that “a week is a long time in politics”. The Bihar politics often makes Wilson sagely in describing the rough political waves of the state.
Tejashwi Yadav has indeed said that it would not be that easy to change the government in the state. His confidence is on the basis of the post of the Speaker in the Bihar Assembly being held by an RJD leader Avadh Bihari Choudhary. Also, the numbers in the Bihar Assembly add to the confidence of the deputy chief minister to attempt to poach the JD (U) MLAs to form own government in the state.
It may be recalled that Kumar had returned to the NDA fold even after winning the 2015 Assembly elections in an alliance with the RJD by publicly stating that there were attempts to break his party in the state. While the Bihar politics has seen several tides since 2005 when Kumar became chief minister of the state for the first time, the BJP has remained a supporting actor in the state politics. The fate of the BJP has seen no changes despite the party’s claims of the ‘Modi Magic’ blowing in the country.
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