After 17 years of coalition partnership of two NDA parties – BJP and JDU finally parted company today in Bihar. Indications for this end were in the air since the 2010 Assembly election in the state when Nitish Kumar broke Lalu’s MY (Muslim and Yadav) formula by attracting a good response from the Muslim voters. His JDU, accordingly was marginally short of majority (118 out of 243). Since then he started toying with the strategy of shaking off the BJP and managing a single party rule. He left no opportunity to malign and ignore the BJP. Out of ego, he started having the idea that even the votes to this alliance partner came through his popularity. This false notion made him bolder to further humiliate the BJP.
He compelled BJP to not bring Narendra Modi to Bihar for any election campaign. Nitish further cancelled a dinner in which the BJP leaders were also invited. His strategy was by and by to defame Narendra Modi as a communalist to appease the Muslim voters. Simultaneously, Nitish was probing to sidetrack Lalu and befriend the ruling Congress at the Centre. He thought that the centre would concede his demand of special status to Bihar and extend a huge package for development in Bihar which will strengthen his position so much that in future no opponent could challenge his position in Bihar. In his national rally in the Ram Lila ground in Delhi in April 2013, he was sarcastically worst at modi, whom he rated as an unacceptable leader.
The NDA was formed in 1996 and Nitish took 17 years to realize that Narendra Modi was a communal leader. If Modi is communal for the Gujarat riots of 2002, what about the Congress leaders under whose rule thousands of Sikhs were butchered in 1984. Modi was never taken to custody whereas several Congress leaders including Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler were in jail and are still not free from murder charges. Tomorrow Prakash Singh Badal may enquire from Nitish, why Sikh killers are not communalists. What will be his reply.
When there was riot in Gujarat, Ram vilas Paswan resigned from the Vajpayee Govt. Nitish was the Railway Minister. At that time Modi was secular. When the BJP won in the last Gujarat election, Nitish had congratulated him. When Modi was given an important party position in Goa on June 9, Nitish and Sharad Yadav called it BJP’s internal matter. Both of them will have to explain as to why they suddenly parted company on June 16.
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