Patna,(BiharTimes): Notwithstanding tall claims of wave in the favour of respective camps the truth is that all the political parties in Bihar are not so sure about their performance in the coming Lok Sabha election.
Had the wave been so powerful they would have gone on all the seats alone. But none of the three major players––the BJP, the RJD and the Janata Dal (United)––is contesting on all the 40 seats alone. They surely lack confidence. Even the Janata Dal (United), whose leader chief minister, Nitish Kumar, initially planned to go alone on all the seats have now decided to go in alliance with the Communist Party of India. It has left Banka and Begusarai seats for it and is contesting on 38 seats. The party is now finding it extremely difficult to put up candidates in all the 38 seats as, unlike in 2009, it does not want to give tickets to sitting MLAs and ministers. Giving ticket to them may push the minority state government in deeper trouble as the party may not win the by-elections to all these seats vacated by ministers and MLAs. The government is already surviving on the support from four Independent and one CPI legislator. The four Congress MLAs may not support the government in the future.
As the party is unable to give ticket to its ministers and legislators it is bound to rely on the turncoats from different parties. This is causing revolt like situation in the state.
Since the party can not spare ministers and MLAs for poll it is even wooing leaders of BJP, RJD and other parties––some of them even those who have been rejected by the voters last time. For example the party leadership is luring Abu Qaiser and Vijendra Chaudhary to its side and even offering LS tickets when they lost the 2010 Assembly election.
After the resignation of Renu Kumari Kushwaha, chief minister Nitish Kumar, all out of sudden made Lesie Singh the minister in the state cabinet. Reports said that he did so as she wanted to contested Lok Sabha election from Purnea. The party is instead wooing the BJP MLA from Baisi, Santosh Kushwaha, and offering ticket. It is also giving ticket to BJP MLC, Manoj Singh, from Siwan, though the latter was quite active in Narendra Modi’s Hunkar Rally of Patna last October 27.