In another case, an FIR was lodged against Lalu Prasad, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief, for describing Amit Shah as “narbhakhchi” (maneater).
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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. Because India’s states conduct most day-to-day governance tasks and the public sector remains deeply enmeshed in the functioning of the economy, wrestling control of the state provides the victor with significant political power. The Nitish-Lalu campaign is simply failing to talk about “development politics” and is overtly concentrating on “caste” factor.
“Nitish Kumar betrayed us two years ago and broke alliance with the BJP in 2013 as he had become greedy for the Prime Minister’s post”, Shah told party workers at a meeting in Supaul ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar.
Major opinion polls across the country, have until now given the verdict in favour of the NDA-led alliance in Bihar and the Lokniti-CSDS survey has said that the social profiling of the support that the two alliances are getting, is pretty clear.
The complainant has also expressed concern that Prasad’s remarks may affect peace and law and order in the state. “But his affidavit shows that he owns a BMW auto and a Honda Fireblade bike”, he said.
Similarly, there is complete consolidation of upper castes behind the BJP, which they justify in the name of choosing development over “Jungle Raj” or economic advantage of having governments of the same party at the centre and the state. It has been aggressive enough to not repeat its mistakes of the 1990s, when it bent over backwards to accommodate Nitish Kumar, George Fernandes, RK Hegde and JH Patel, delaying the BJP’s ascent. People of Bihar feel safe, no matter how much BJP tries to scare them. Fact finding teams saw a certain meshing of interests between the BJP and the Samajwadi party in the Muzaffarnagar communal violence just before the Lok Sabha elections, with the local impacted minorities alleging deep connivance. “Youth is with the BJP and Nitish’s decision to go with Lalu has not gone down well with them”, Javadekar claimed.
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The Bihar election, which begins on October 12 and concludes on November. 8, will be the biggest electoral test for the Modi-led BJP government thus far. While filing the nomination papers for the state assembly polls, Lalu’s older son, Tej Pratap mentioned his age as 25 as that was his age according to the voters’ list.
