With the day's end, the peepers’ wait could not meet the end. JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was silent. RJD legislative party meeting was completed. Senior BJP leaders had also held meetings, but nothing was concluded. It seemed the deal was still on the table.
Former Bihar deputy CM and BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi said doors are not permanently closed in politics. Bihar BJP chief Samrat Chaudhary repeated the same. A day before the political storm brewed in the state, RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha gave Nitish Kumar an ultimatum to end the speculation that no negotiation was being done.
The fate of the ‘mahagathbandhan’, a coalition of JD(U), RJD, Congress and CPI(ML), is in limbo, no one knows which move Nitish Kumar will make. Other parties of the coalition had fewer options because they stood 8-seat-behind majority in the assembly.
Nitish Kumar, who has been famous for switching sides, is still a crucial knot of the ‘mahagathbandhan’, who became the chief minister of Bihar even after having the less seats than the RJD. He made his entry to the national-level Opposition alliance INDIA with the hope to be a shining face of the coalition, but the Congress was sitting there in the driving seat. In meetings, discord arose which propelled him to cross over the grand alliance in Bihar just 2-3 months ahead of the general election.
Nitish Kumar knows the coalition he is part of will not benefit him in the Lok Sabha election that is expected to be held in April this year. He is aware of the fact that the long-awaited Ram Temple in Ayodhya has been consecrated which elevated the people’s elation in favour of the BJP. The rest has been broken into by the announcement of ‘Bharat Ratna’ for the former Bihar CM and a beacon of social justice, Karpoori Thakur in Bihar.
He is already informed what success his party achieved in the 2019 general election would not be repeated with the current coalitions. Being a 16-member parliamentary party is not easy as it seems, because one of the ‘mahagathbandhan’ associates, the RJD, has suffered an embarrassing defeat without opening its account. It was only the Congress among the alliance partners in Bihar, which managed to win one seat out of 40.
Although the BJP has indicated that there is no real friend or enemy in politics, but it can’t be speculated yet what Nitish will do next?
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