He would have become hero if he had sat home after resignation and not resumed alliance in supersonic way with a party he fought last election against
Mumtaz Alam, IndiaTomorrow.net,
Patna, July 27: The ‘Vikas Purush’ of Bihar Nitish Kumar had led his party JD-U to 44 seats loss in the 2015 Assembly elections despite being CM for over a decade and the party slipped from No. 1 position of 2010 to No. 2, yet his face was saved by the Grand Alliance partners RJD and Congress who elected him as Chief Minister. They did so because he was their declared chief ministerial candidate during the poll campaign even though his party’s tally slipped from 115 seats in 2010 to just 71 in the 243-member Assembly in 2015.
Not just that, the party he resumed alliance with last midnight even though he had contested against it had also performed poorly. BJP had won 91 seats in 2010 but was reduced to 53 in 2015 and finished at No. 3.
On the other hand, Nitish’s pre-poll alliance partners made splendid performance and RJD of Lalu Prasad jumped from 22 seats in 2010 to 80 seats. Similarly, Congress rose from just 4 seats in 2010 to 27 seats.
Assembly Elections 2010
Assembly Elections 2015
Parties
Seats Contested
Seats Won
Seats Contested
Seats Won
BJP
102
91
157
53
Congress
243
4
41
27
JD-U
141
115
101
71
RJD
168
22
101
80
The figure clearly shows that the Grand Alliance of JDU, RJD and Congress had got the mandate to run Bihar, not Nitish Kumar as an individual who supervised loss of 44 seats for his party.
In light of these facts, the Wednesday midnight act is nothing but the grand immoral act of ‘honest’ Nitish Kumar who apparently resigned from the post as his deputy and Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav was not leaving the post despite CBI filing an FIR against him.
Bihar Assembly Elections 2015 (Total Seats – 243)
Parties
Seats Won
National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
JDU (It joined NDA in midnight of 26 July 2017)
71
BJP
53
BLSP (Rashtriya Lok Samta Party)
2
LJP
2
HAMS – Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)
1
Total Seats
129
RJD
80
Congress
27
IND
4
CPI-ML
3
Total Seats
114
He would have become hero if he had sat home after the resignation over corruption charges against ally leader, but by resuming alliance in supersonic with a party he strongly fought the last election against just to remain chief minister he seems to have done a great disservice to himself.
As for corruption or crime, which party is completely clean? Perhaps, none. And certainly not the one with which he has resumed partnership.