31/08/2014

 

One Modi credited for victory, another blamed for defeat

 


Patna,(BiharTimes): “Ek Modi jitaya dusra Modi harwaya.” (One Modi ensured victory while other ensured defeat.) 

This seems to be the common refrain in the BJP circle. While all credit was given to Narendra Modi after the Lok Sabha election results no one is prepared to blame him for the defeat in the by-polls for 10 seats. For that all blame is laid on the feet of former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

It is being said that the upper castes voted against the BJP candidates because of the wrong distribution of tickets and none else but Sushil Modi is responsible for it. 

Party’s national vice president Dr C P Thakur talked of his alleged mistreatment in the BJP. Even alliance partners Upendra Kushwaha and Ram Vilas Paswan found fault with the selection of candidates. And for this none is blaming NaMo, but most of them directed their attack on SuMo.

However, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh, on Saturday came out in defence of SuMo. He went to the extent of virtually declaring the former deputy CM as the chief ministerial candidate for the 2015 Assembly election.

Radha Mohan is a Rajput and considered close to Union home minister Rajnath Singh. So political observers have started reading different meanings in this statement.

The problem is that results in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Bihar often go differently. For example in the post-Kargil Sep-Oct 1999 Lok Sabha election the Vajpayee wave swept away with 41 out of 54 seats in the then united Bihar. Even Lalu Yadav lost to Sharad Yadav in Madhepura.

But within five months the story was different. After the Feb 2000 Assembly election RJD, with the help of Congress, once again managed to form the government. The NDA under the leadership of Nitish Kumar came very close to forming the government. In fact he became the CM, but failed to win confidence motion and had to quit within a week.

In 2005 just the opposite happened. In 2004 the RJD-Congress-LJP alliance won 29 out of 40 seats in Bihar. But a year later the RJD was out of power as the alliance fell apart. Nitish Kumar led NDA got absolute majority in the second election held in the year 2005.

So political observers are of the view that it would never be a cakewalk for the BJP-led alliance in the next Assembly polls in Bihar.

Aware of these past examples the BJP is busy keeping its house in order. But the problem is that there are too manuy leaders, who are not prepared to accept SuMo’s leadership. He has become a favourite whipping boy for a strong section of the partymen. Herein lies the problem.


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