‘BJP’s use and throw’: Opposition leader on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s move to Rajya Sabha
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Nitish Kumar’s social media post on Thursday announcing that he would give up the chief ministership of Bihar to become a Rajya Sabha member made Dipankar Bhattacharya guffaw in disbelief.
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Over the last three or so decades, Kumar and Bhattacharya have come together, parted ways, then allied again only to become sworn enemies soon after – largely because of the flip-flops that have defined Kumar’s politics.
Bhattacharya, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, has in recent years emerged as one of Kumar’s most strident critics. But such an exit for the man just four months after he led the National Democratic Alliance to a handsome victory in the state elections defies logic, Bhattacharya said.
After all, the National Democratic Alliance won 202 out of Bihar’s 243 seats in November. Key members of the alliance are Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Mahagathbandhan, of which the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation is a part, managed to win only 35 seats.
Bhattacharya went so far as to suggest that the ten-term chief minister had been “blackmailed” into submission by his longstanding ally, the BJP. More importantly, however, he argued that the development seemed to ignore the election verdict.
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