A wise politician is one who is endowed with foresight and makes his move in right time and at right places. Politics is such a crude field where the rival players are merciless and even a small miss proves irreparable. If this is so, the Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar of JD/U appears to have committed a similar mistake, amounting to his political harakiri when he broke alliance of six years old with the BJP.
The BJP-JD/U alliance had been running smoothly and Bihar had returned to the era of economic revival and peace. The state started registering its position of success in different fields of developments in the country. Nitish was being seen in line with other established chief ministers like Jayalalithaa, Mamata, Narendra Modi, Shivraj Singh and Raman Singh. Often his name was being floated as a PM material. He was further treated as a hero and giant killer for uprooting the 15-year long RJD rule. The most vociferous leader like Lalu had been cut to size.
All these favourable developments made him extra ambitious. He started dreaming to become the Prime Minister. In his scheme of things, he thought that if he left out BJP, the minorities will vote for him and his road to success would be easier. Moreover, he would be able to discard Modi, his bête noir. It was a pure and simple miscalculation. He should have realized that the people had voted for the alliance and not for Nitish alone. He is yet to prove his acceptability. Once the alliance was disrupted, the graph of BJP and Modi started going up and sidelined by the Congress, Nitish is today all alone and friendless. Moreover, some important party leaders including Shivanand Tiwari are charging him for dictatorial attitude and leaving the party. The recent electoral surveys say that out of 40 Lok Sbha seats, the BJP will grab 21, while JD/U’s tally will dwindle to 5 only. The lesson learnt is that a wise politician will definitely try to avoid such suicidal miscalculations. The utter defeat is looming large on his outfit(JD/U).
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