Political scientist Milan Vaishnav’s work has earlier shown that weakened public institutions give rise to a politician-criminal breed that enjoy community support and can also raise funds for the party.
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“He said the people of Bihar were responding to the elemental message put forward by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and they would vote for development over fear of ‘jungle raj”. “The BJP-led NDA will win a comfortable majority”. They lined-up for a meeting with Mrs Gandhi subsequently, to tell her that they were extremely pleased to have the benefit of her leadership for another year and that this was the correct move in view of the party organisation’s ailing health. Raghunathpur MLA Vikram Kunwar has claimed that his party has sold Assembly poll ticket to former strongman and RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin’s shooter.
“Sushil Modi [BJP leader and former Deputy CM] takes phone calls only from Amit Shah, and Amit Shah has decided, like elsewhere in the country, that he must win the election by hook or crook or by any other means”, Pawan Verma, JD(U)’s national spokesman, said. As per seat sharing, JD(U) and RJD are contesting for 101 seats each while Congress on 41 seats.
The BJP, despite the seriousness of the allegation, was temperate in its reaction, with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh asserting tickets were distributed “fairly”. Sources close to Subhash Yadav said he wold formally join Jan Adhikar Party of Pappu Yadav at a function here tomorrow which could be a major embarrassment to the RJD supremo.
KALYANPUR (SAMASTIPUR): CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday kicked off the anti-NDA grand alliance’s campaign for the first phase of Bihar assembly election, cautioning the electorate against repeating the mistake they committed by voting for NDA in the 2014 Lok Sabha election under the influence of “false promise” of “achhe din”. His remarks on a “covert operation” against Dawood generated fresh controversy. “What is the difference between you and Lalu Prasad”, Singh said in Patna yesterday.
The prime minister announced the Rs.1.25 lakh crore package in mid-August, which was then termed by Nitish Kumar as nothing but re-packaging of 87 percent of old schemes.
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However, as the BJP has repeatedly in the recent past reconfirmed its role as the political arm of the RSS, it is bound to carry out RSS diktats on this issue, it said. He rues the way his party is functioning. “Association helps in better recall”, the leader said.
