Today I was seeing in a national newspaper that Nitish Kumar is blaming the press for ignoring him. He charged that he had been organizing districi level ‘sankalp’ rallies which were calculatedly being ignored by the media. Is he not trying to show himself bigger than the life size and asking for the moon? We know that he is being envious of Narendra Modi, whose massive rallies, all over the country and his persuasive oratory are mesmerizing the press and so the media is not giving any special preference to the local satraps who are wrongly overestimating themselves. We think, he is wise enough to see the difference between a national party and a state level party. Why he should compare himself with the prime ministerial prospect of a national party?
There is a saying in English that nobody can make you smaller without your consent. If the high flying Nitish of 2012 has suddenly become featherless, he has none else to blame except himself. He is blaming Narendra Modi for falsely seeing the dreams of becoming the prime minister. The fact is that he himself is suffering from this nightmare under the influence of which he parted company with a dependable alliance partner. Under his scheme of things, he started going closer to the Congress which is helping his minority government and propagating Modi as a communalist who believed in dividing the society. No court or enquiry including one constituted by Lalu while being the Railway Minister, has held NaMo guilty. Still Nitish and Lalu accuse him of killing several Muslims in 2002. Both can be dragged to the court for this irresponsible serious baseless charge.
After the victory in the last assembly election, under a well thought strategy, he started ignoring BJP and advancing his hate-Modi campaign. In big rallies at Patna and Delhi, he had declared to support a govt at the Centre which gave special status to Bihar. When Mrs Sonia Gandhi left some hints of a lollypop, he abandoned his BJP partner. This political hara-kiri, reduced his public cestimate and contrarily, the popularity of Modi went sky high. The Congress read the pulse of the time and sidelining JD/U, lured the RJD and LJP to come forward for an electoral alliance. Nitish, due to his suicidal political miscalculation is left in lurch and licking his wounds in utter loneliness. Will the press like to give any byte to a politician of this track record?
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