Patna, (Bihar Times): With the picture in the United States not yet fully clear the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday declared that his party’s Rajya Sabha MP and former minister of state for external affairs in the NDA government, Digvijay Singh, may go to the United States to campaign for Hillary Clinton, a Democratic Party leader, locked in a tussle within her own party with Barak Obama and John Edward.

“Our sympathy is obviously with Democrats. If need be the former minister of state for external affairs, Digvijay Singh, may go there to campaign for Hillary Clinton,” said the chief minister, while talking to newsmen at the Janata Darbar.

Earlier on Sunday Digvijay Singh, while talking to a newspaper, claimed that he and the chief minister, had received an invitation from Hillary’s election
managers to come and campaign among Biharis living in New York and New Jersey. However, the chief minister’s secretariat on Sunday denied having received any such invitation. But on Monday Nitish made it clear that Digvijay may be going to the US.

The big question is: Is not it pre-mature to throw one’s lot in favour of Hillary even before the electoral battle within the Democratic Party is not over? What will be the party’s position when Obama and not Hillary emerges as the presidential candidate.

There is no dearth of people of Indian origin in the US who either maintain equi-distance with both Democratic Party and George Bush’s Republican Party or are tilted towards the latter, particularly after the nuclear deal with that country.

Yet there is a large number of Indian origin voters who prefer Obama, a Black, over Hillary. Meddling within the Democratic Party affairs is simply a bad politics being played by the Janata Dal (United). The tragedy is that country’s former minister of state for external affairs is not understanding these contradiction and is so keen to go to the US.