JD(U), RJD pitch for Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi’s Bihar template as Oppn national model against BJP | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Talking to reporters in Patna on Tuesday after staking claim to form the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) government under his leadership, Nitish stressed on the point that that it will be now "seven Mahagathbandhan allies versus the BJP" in Bihar now.
Hours after ending his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar, while talking to reporters in Patna on Tuesday after staking claim to form the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) government under his leadership, stressed on the point that that it will be now “seven Mahagathbandhan allies versus the BJP” in Bihar now.
“It was not just my party and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) which had been impressing upon me to distance from the BJP, five other parties (RJD, Congress, CPM, CPI (ML) and CPI) too thought along similar lines. Now, the Grand Alliance has seven parties,” Nitish said, indicating that there was a need for a united fight against the BJP in the prevailing political situation.
While refraining from commenting on his national plan and his Prime Ministerial ambition for the 2024 general elections at this stage, Nitish, who is considered to be among the country’s most astute and seasoned politicians, pointed to a Bihar template of Opposition unity comprising the Congress, Socialist and Left parties with a common goal of taking on the BJP.
RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav sought to supplement the points Nitish did not make directly. “We will not allow BJP to fulfil its nefarious design now. We are together now and are not afraid of any political vendetta,” Tejashwi said, charging that the BJP lost virtually all its allies because it would try to “subsume” them sooner or later.
JD(U) national spokesperson KC Tyagi told The Indian Express: “Bihar has been a model of assimilative coalition politics since 1967, when the Left, Bharatiya Jan Sangh and Socialists had come together against the Congress. The country also saw a good coalition model given by AB Vajpayee and Jyoti Basu. But things went haywire from there when BJP started trying to diminish the influence of regional parties.”
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