In Patna, all three parties involved in the unceremonious unmaking of a 20-month government and the hurried cobbling together of a new one invoke “the people”. Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi and Lalu Prasad speak vehemently of the mandate of 2015 — the first two to give a patina of respectability and legitimacy to the series of hidden chess moves and secretive manoeuvres that, overnight, rearranged Bihar’s ruling arithmetic. The people didn’t vote for corruption, they say. The RJD, on the other hand, calls its own ouster from the ruling coalition and the swapping of places with the BJP, the party defeated by the JD(U)-RJD pre-poll Mahagathbandhan, as the people’s betrayal.
On balance, a straw poll, taken today in Raghopur, may well throw up the following results: The BJP, already a clear choice for the Centre, has gained a further foothold in the state. The RJD is a gainer too, of sympathy from even those who had broken caste ranks, to gravitate towards Nitish, in the state. The loser in Raghopur is Nitish. You could say that Lalu’s bastion was not his to lose. But that may not be entirely true.
And if those who make up the cast of characters in Bihar are also to be seen as carriers of larger narratives, you might go so far as to say this: For now, as caste raises its head again in Raghopur, it is development that has been cast into the shade.
Source:-Indian Express
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On balance, a straw poll, taken today in Raghopur, may well throw up the following results: The BJP, already a clear choice for the Centre, has gained a further foothold in the state. The RJD is a gainer too, of sympathy from even those who had broken caste ranks, to gravitate towards Nitish, in the state. The loser in Raghopur is Nitish. You could say that Lalu’s bastion was not his to lose. But that may not be entirely true.
And if those who make up the cast of characters in Bihar are also to be seen as carriers of larger narratives, you might go so far as to say this: For now, as caste raises its head again in Raghopur, it is development that has been cast into the shade.
Source:-Indian Express
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