Once upon a time I was a huge admirer of Nitish Kumar, I believed he would transform Bihar; and if he rules for 10 years in Bihar, I no longer would go in an office in Bangalore, Pune or Delhi to work, but today when Bihar election date is announced and Nitish Kumar has just concluded 10 years, It makes me sad to write an article called this article; more upsetting is the fact that Nitish himself is not interested in governance and development.
Let’s briefly look at why Bihar voted to Nitish led BJP-JDU alliance in Bihar. Many of friends who is not from Bihar have often asked me – why do you guys voted to Lalu 3 times, didn’t you realize it after first time, that he no longer is a brilliant CM, he is just a comedian. Let me tell that in most of places in Bihar; Lalu won because of booth capturing. Booth capturing was so much prevalent in those days, due to criminal associates of Lalu that many people didn’t go to vote – as no one would dare to risk their lives.
One of the biggest criminal and ex MP (of Siwan), Shahabuddin had the audacity to fire at the SP Mr. Singhal, who was promptly transferred when he instituted a case against him. This is just an example of Jungle Raj. Shahabuddin is said to be close to underworld, and his wife would be an MLA candidate from Nitish-led Janata Parivar this time. Think!!!
I still remember that in 2005, CRPF and BSF were massively deployed across Bihar and they ensured that everyone especially women come out and vote; and no criminals obstruction takes place and that is how Nitish led BJP came in power.
Nitish’s first 5 years was stupendous for Bihar – He put 50000 criminals in Jail, built many roads and flyover, ensured safety of people , reduced corruption and that’s why in 2010 Nitish won with a phenomenal majority which was unimaginable by any yardstick.
In 2nd term, Nitsh planned to provide electricity across Bihar (imagine how underdeveloped was Bihar that electricity was such a big issue in 21st century,), Nitish also focused on job creation along with trying to woo Biharis to come back to their state; he had good intention, but at certain point of time, he realized that he could be potential PM candidate of NDA, and there starts downfall of Bihar again. He stopped working for Bihar since then and evolution of Jungle Raj 2 started.
Many significant people of Bihar political circle including some senior JDU leaders confirmed me that Nitish was very sure that if he succeeds in convincing Advani and Co. that Modi is a communal and would lose 2014 election if projected as PM; then BJP may be left with one option for PM candidate and it will be Nitish Kumar because of his image in Bihar and credentials.
He never imagined that BJP would part away but it happened…since then he never focused on Bihar and its governance. He did everything possible to ensure massive show in Loksabha in Bihar, he failed very badly. His ego was hurt. He was unable to acknowledge that Narendra Modi is PM of India. He hated Modi, not because of Modi’s work, but because of jealousy, he didn’t accept that fact that even in Bihar, Narendra Modi is more popular than Nitish. He quit, he appointed Manjhi and tried to be Super CM, Manjhi made him even more annoyed with his working style and floppy comments. He again became CM and chucked Manjhi out.
LS election results signaled end of Nitish’s career in politics. He wants to be CM again, not to work for Bihar, but to prove a point to Modi that he is still most popular in Bihar; it’s an ego issue for him.
But Nitish is aware that he can’t succeed, if he battles it alone. While Nitish was searching for a formula, Lalu yadav came in for his support. Lalu wants to secure his children’s future, he knows that he is politically finished; but if he sides with Nitish ; they may win, because of caste based voting and politics in Bihar. Hence the alliance finalized – it is a survival politics for Nitish and Lalu both.
All said and done, if Nitish manages to be CM again – it’s not Nitish who will rule; its Lalu and his hooligans who would dictate terms in Bihar. Nitish would be reduced to a mere spectator, he would create policies but Lalu and his criminal gangs would gulp that money and there would be no implementation of those policies. Bihar would be paralyzed because of Nitish/Lalu relationship with the PM Modi. Fear of Jungle Raj would be all over again, it has already started to show – the way crime and corruption has reached to its peak in last few years.
BJP at center and BJP in state – may do well for Bihar. There will be special focus on Bihar considering number of Union Ministers and Modi’s LS seats from Bihar. Today’s special package of 1.25 lac crore announced by Modi is one significant step which may change face of Bihar, if used well. This is the golden chance, My Dear Bihar; don’t vote for Nitish – because you in turn, are voting for Lalu. Nitish won because we didn’t want Lalu to be CM, this time if Nitish wins, it means we want Lalu (Remember Jungle Raj, You don’t want it back in any condition, Right). Therefore, I believe Nitish must lose Bihar election, if Bihar has to prosper.
@avinashchoubey
Very good article.
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Absolutely right…
Nitish Kumar must & should loose in bihar to bring an end to jungal Raj forever. Good luck Bihar 👍
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I agree !
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Hope the people of Bihar think in all calmness to visualize their dreams and then choose capable leaders who will make those dreams come true for them. God bless Bihar! Jai hind.
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Now in Bihar all are dirty politicians.. When jdu is wrong party then large number of leader of this party join bjp and with bjp ex. R.b.paswan ji( ljp),upendra kuswaha(Rlsd) ,j.r.manjhi(ham)etc..
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I am not fully agree with you sir. U have discussed the past is ri8 but your prediction might be wrong too. Why PM did’t announced the package earlier? why didn’t he announced same type of package for others state also? Is he waiting for assembly election in other states too? BJP also won 25 sits in J&K against PDP but why made alliance with them while every pure Indian understand the PDP DNA. But i can say some thing about some thing JDU RJD alliance. Definately it was worst dicison taken by Nitish that pushed Bihar 5 or more years behind. But if i talk after this wrong decision then we found that the helplessy created by BJP to JDU who forced Nitish to take support to stand in the politics. JDU is a stae party u can stand their helplessy but no better CM candidate in Bihar than Nitish has purposed by BJP.How can you assure that BJP will be better option. This we can think that it will be better for Bihar if a party come in position who ruling center also but who can believe on politicians?
Please answer it sir.
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My only thinking during casting vote will be, Lalu should not come to power again and hence only option left is BJP
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Sir,
Before nitish Kumar came to power no body knew he would turn out to be such a capable cm, in d same way we never know somebody from bjp may turn out to b a better cm. We have to give them a chance. In our place lalu supports have already started threatening us that this time we r coming to power, then we will show u guys. I was once a very big fan of nitish Kumar, but not anymore
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I think this is the perfect comment…
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Hell Yeah !! Every one knows why Nitish parted ways with BJP.
Lalu the comedian and the looter should not be allowed to spoil Bihar again.
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I Must say this article is still incomplete . You don’t follow the process of elimination to select the winner. The scenario’s have changed in Bihar and is competition between the two parties which is d best thing currently but the question is for how long we can keep it that way .As a true Bihari we must have faith in our leaders . I am sure that if our leaders have good motive and ambition then under no circumstances he will stop to achieve them. Unfortunately i don’t see it with so called Muscular BJP. Lets hope our State decide something which in our best collective interest .
Cheers
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Excellent article.
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@avinash choubey…looks like u r hired to write anti nitish and pro Modi…Analysis of yours is pathetic….did u say how many criminals bjp is having..one central minister was found with 2 crore cash…how many murderers they hired…wat kind of cheap politics they r playing
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States need strong leadership not the clowns put up either for caste or image equations, if Nitish is voted to power in Bihar.. he would want to prove that he can do much better job, may be bcos of wat you think (jealous about MoDi).. Nitish as well knows if he does well in Bihar in this term next GE he would stand a chance of being the PM candidate for the so called Janta Parivar (even if it will form or not, atleast for all regional parties)…. so he would perform to take that bitter revenge!! Nitish has not just garnered popularity in Bihar but across India… sometimes like in 2014 watever is done wont yield results and is portrayed the wrong way with so many Saininks against you.. he will definitely want to be more popular in India and it is good for the country when this effort begins… people will be the beneficiaries!! so instead it is like why nitish must win bihar election… ( Strong govts are built by strong oppositions, a weak opposition will build a UPA 2)
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Dear, agree with you. Once I had thanked Mr. Nitish Kr. for his great works but now गरियाबे के मन करता है।
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Booth capturing true but a casteism in Bihar elections can’t be ignored.Some castes have tended to vote en-masse for RJD and others split leading to Bihar RJD wins.Only when BJP-RJD was able to put up a better combination along with strict elections then BJP-JDU won.Hopefully the average person (and in Bihar it is still way below national) cares about development
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I totally agree with all the facts written… being a Bihari i wish all people of Bihar should really think before voting to JDU+…
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Very good article, Nitish must lose election.
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Bihar will grow only if resident Bihari’s think above caste based voting. People should understand the politics behind for Modi’s package announcement and Nitish alliance with Lalu. Personally i am 110% sure that once Lalu again come into any kind of power forget the development of Bihar. Again non-educated Yadav’s (i respect educated Yadav’s) will become Gunda and as you all know what Lalu did to educational system.
I was the Fan of Nitish Kumar but after alliance with Lalu, he become the worst politician for me who just think of his own pride but not the state. Nitish must learn the lesson for his stupid thinking.
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Nitish made lot of improvements n brough huge developments in bihar !!
But, as the article says….siding with lalu n congress is his worst decision n if he wins the election he will just be CM for the sake of name.
At one point, he himself said he won’t join congress at any cost but now he has…..n him coming to power can ruin bihar.
His few biggest mistakes were misuse of the land available n construction of some wrong buildings on those spots !!
like….the buddh smriti park & the new musem near high court. instead of those he could have built some awesome malls which bihar severely lacks.
a place which can house a asia level museum can surely have a national level mall….n that too at the heart of patna.
he shouldn’t have made that museum n the park instead a awesome mall with underground parking n other such facilities would have been way better.
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I would prefer an national level health research centre, school or college or parking or vendors’ zone or even an international football stadium at places that you have mentioned. Malls will be a private property and won’t benefit the masses largely. A number of them have already sprung up in the city.
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yaaa….fine enough are those also !!
a really good school would have been opened there or the things u mentioned !!
but things like a museum and buddha smriti park are useless as hell
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No one can deny the fact that nitish is the best cm Bihar have ever had.At the same time lalu to be the worst one.
Every one knows that splitting of bjp-jdu alliance will be proved to be a inhibitor to the progress of Bihar.Nitish should have thought about the Bihar instead of himself or his party.
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Very thoughtful article!
I am from Maharashtra and
I support BJP only because of their development agenda. This does not mean that there are no wrong people’s in BJP, they are everywhere even in AAP. I was a huge fan of Mr Nitish Kumar due to his work in Bihar and it seems that Bihar would become a developed state and people of Bihar would no longer need to left their home state to earn money, but with JDU parted ways with BJP, its all in a mess now. Even reports in various news papers shows how the GDP of Bihar is on decline post JDU’s breakup with BJP.
And now Mr Clean had joined the hands with Lalu & Congress which is the worst thing he did in his political career.
Hope people of Bihar will make a wise choice in upcoming assembly election.
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well coming to the discusssion on elections .i think both lalu and nitish are not capable of becoming cm.beacause nitish is one of the graduated engineers from a well reputed institute.A leader should not think about himselp.He should think completely about his public.he should sacrifice completely himself for the betterment of his citizens, and if you are not capable of such thing you should not even have right to contest in elections.eventhough people know this but still they vote for such stupids
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very True
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