Forced into Midnight Labour Pain, Bihar Gives Birth to a ‘Coalition of Comfort’ for Nitish

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Mumtaz Alam,

Much before the central government agencies carried out raids at homes of Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family members in the last couple of months, it was getting visible to people that ‘honest’ Nitish Kumar was feeling uneasy in the Grand Alliance of secular parties in Bihar. What happened Wednesday midnight was due to happen sooner or later.

After all, the man who spent 17 years with a partner must be missing him and looking for ways to rejoin. Nitish was with BJP-led NDA alliance till 2013 when he parted ways after then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was declared prime ministerial candidate of NDA. His JDU and RJD and Congress fought the Lok Sabha elections separately only to be defeated by the ‘Modi wave’ in May 2014. Consequently, he and the other two formed Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance and fought the state Assembly polls together in 2015 and comprehensively defeated BJP-led NDA despite PM Modi’s massive and aggressive campaigning in the state.

The win and his own governance record were so impressive that he was being talked about as prime ministerial candidate to take on Modi in 2019. But soon he realized or was made to realize something that he started saying he was not in the race for PM in 2019. What happened in well-scripted form within hours – from Wednesday evening to past midnight – established his inclination to return to the old partner of 17 years’ experience.

Hardly can one support anyone facing corruption charges – and if CBI and ED have found something wrong with the accumulation of assets, Lalu family must face the law.

And Nitish would have earned laurels if he had sat home after resigning from the post of chief minister saying he cannot continue with the government where his deputy (Tejashwi Yadav) is facing corruption charges. But acting according to the script, within hours he stitched alliance with BJP – the party he has been calling names for last four years.

Many are rightly questioning his moral right to form government with a party he fought election against and got mandate from people just two years back. The Grand Alliance of RJD, JDU and Congress had won 80, 71 and 27 (total 178) seats respectively in the 243-member Assembly in 2015 elections and had reduced the BJP from 91 seats in 2010 to just 53. Yet, he forced Bihar into midnight labour pain only to give birth to a coalition that he feels more comfortable with.

Interesting Honesty !!!

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