While growth is now purring along at around seven percent, complaints have been mounting about his failure to nail down major reforms and his failure to make major inroads into poverty. The memorandum also drew the EC’s attention to Modi’s remark – “Hamara muqabala shaitan se hai (now our fight is with devil)”.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the second Parivartan Rally of the day in Bihar at Aurangabad.
Observing the presence of large gathering of voters, he said he could surmise what was going to happen in Bihar. Mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi made vitriolic statements against dominant OBCs and their alleged anti-Dalit mind-set. This barred her from holding the position of PM and also from contesting in elections for six years.
“This is commensurate with the eclipse of ideology in political parties”.
In 2010, the then BJP-JD-U alliance won 206 seats, while the RJD-led alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan got only 25 seats. Interestingly, the reasoning that they invoke in justification of their electoral choices are strikingly selective when despite being the poorest section they reject price rise as a momentary issue and blame nature rather than the central government for the same.
And as criticism mounts that Modi’s pledge to transform the economy is running out of steam, observers say a defeat for his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will heighten the sense of declining momentum. “This package is not for Nitish Kumar or Lalu Yadav, with this package the state will develop and your children will get employment and education”, he said, adding, “This state lacks three basic things without which no state can develop, and they are dawai, padhai, kamai (health, education and employment)”.
Union Minister Anant Singh granted him membership of BJP at the party office in Patna along with Vidya Sagar Yadav, a former Bihar higher education director. As many as 45% of the respondents felt the Nitish government had performed as per expectations while 17% said it exceeded their expectations.
“They are accountable to the people of Bihar”.
The statement said two candidates of Garib Janata (Secular) and one each of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML (L)), Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, RJD and five Independent candidates have declared a case related to murder in their affidavits.
After political parties resorted to name calling, which led to Shaitans coming under spotlight, many from the community thought it would be wise discuss and reach a consensus about whom they would vote for the upcoming Bihar elections.
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Caste politics has marginalised Muslims.
