Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who reached the nationwide capital on Monday was conferring with opposition leaders on taking over the BJP collectively. Earlier, he had a virtually one-hour-long assembly with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
That is the primary assembly between Gandhi and Kumar for the reason that latter walked out of the NDA in Bihar and fashioned a ‘Mahagathbandhan’ authorities with RJD, Congress and outdoors help of the Left. Kumar additionally met H D Kumaraswamy, former Karnataka chief minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief.
Kumar visited the CPI-M headquarters and met normal secretary Sitaram Yechuri to debate learn how to deliver the opposition events collectively to tackle Narendra Modi’s BJP. Each the leaders stress the necessity for events to work collectively to defeat Modi.
On the final day of his Delhi go to, Kumar was scheduled to fulfill a number of opposition leaders together with Nationalist Congress Social gathering’s Sharad Pawar, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav and INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala on Tuesday.
On one hand, AAP has by no means overtly welcomed the thought of opposition groupings and extra so when Congress is within the fray. Lately when Ghulam Nabi Azad give up the Congress, the AAP lashed out on the grand previous occasion and mentioned it should stop to exist.
“Congress has served its function. There are much more alternate options who can problem BJP. Congress has not been in a position to do it for the previous eight years. We can not, as a rustic hold giving possibilities to the Congress. Congress should go, Congress should stop to exist,” AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj had mentioned.
Alternatively, state events such because the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, NCP and Shiv Sena have already signalled that an Opposition formation with out Congress shouldn’t be viable.
CPI-M chief Yechury had hit out at Kumar in 2017 when the JD(U) chief had parted methods with the grand alliance, accusing the Bihar chief minister of “political opportunism.” Yechury had, nonetheless, welcomed the “formation of a secular Mahagathbandhan authorities”in Bihar throughout his assembly with Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav final month.
Kumar, nonetheless, has Telangana CM Okay C Chandrasekhar Rao on his facet. The 2 of them met on August 31 and referred to as for a BJP mukt Bharat, blaming the saffron occasion’s authorities on the Centre for the various ills plaguing the nation.
In the meantime, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) mentioned it has determined to keep up a distance from the JD(U) since there was no official communication to the occasion from the Mahagathbandan.
There have been additionally studies of talks on doable Janata parivar reunion as nicely. “There’s a dialogue happening within the nationwide degree in regards to the necessity of reunification of the splintered events of the unique Janata Social gathering led by Jayaprapakash Narayan. This has gained traction after the JD(U)-RJD fashioned the federal government in Bihar. At this time’s assembly with Nitish Kumar is a preliminary step in direction of it and we have to see the way it goes,” mentioned Kumaraswamy after the assembly.
Previous to reaching New Delhi, Nitish Kumar referred to as on RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on the official residence of his spouse and former Chief Minister Rabri Devi in Patna. She was additionally current of their assembly, together with Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Yadav on Monday mentioned that uniting opposition leaders of the nation is an enormous task and CM Kumar went to Delhi to execute it. “We imagine that if all opposition events come collectively within the nation, it could be extraordinarily tough for the BJP to return into energy on the Centre in 2024. Nitish Kumar and Lalan Singh went to Delhi to execute the plan and unite leaders of opposition events,” he mentioned.
The JD(U) on September 3 held a nationwide government assembly with all its leaders and workplace bearers. “Desh ka neta kaisa ho Nitish Kumar jaisa ho” was the slogan that hire the air, and summed up the sentiment, on the JD(U)’s Bihar headquarters forward of the occasion’s assembly on Saturday.
Though Kumar modestly declined to reply questions on him being within the race for prime ministership, banners put up on the JD(U) workplace bore slogans that despatched throughout the message loud and clear that the occasion anticipated its de facto chief to play a “nationwide position”.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar options on JDU posters, guarantees good governance, offers slogan ‘Pradesh mein dikha, desh mein dikhega’ forward of the 2024 normal elections; visuals from JDU workplace in Patna pic.twitter.com/eW293thoFZ
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“Pradesh mein dikha, desh mein dikhega” (it has been seen within the state, now it will likely be seen throughout the nation), “aagaz hua, badlaav hoga” (a starting has been made, change will observe) have been two of them.
Nonetheless, Kumar suffered a jolt to his ambitions when 5 of the six JD(U) MLAs in Manipur jumped ship to BJP a day earlier than the occasion’s government assembly.
With inputs from News18
