Bihar election: Political churning before polls dates are announced

Bihar is heading to assembly election in the middle of still spreading coronavirus pandemic. There have been hectic political activities in Bihar with ticket aspirants switching sides. A look at the political churning in Bihar ahead of the

Bihar Chief Minister and JDU president Nitish Kumar with Jai Verdhan Yadav, Faraz Fatmi and Tej Pratap, the MLAs who joined the party after quitting the RJD.

HIGHLIGHTS

Bihar Assembly election is in all likelihood to be held in October-November
At least 5 MLCs and six MLAs from the RJD have joined the JDU for the reason that July
A state minister and an MLC have switched facets from JDU to RJD recently

After the Election Commission issued unique pointers remaining week for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election, there is infrequently any doubt that the nation polls will appear on time. However, conspiracy theories announcing the opposite are abound in Bihar's political circles.

Some political observers proceed to accept as true with that the spreading Covid-19 pandemic in Bihar affords an most effective probability for the BJP to defer the meeting election and impose the President's Rule in Bihar. They accept as true with if Bihar goes to the polls beneath the President's Rule, it would gain the BJP greater than incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

And, when you consider that maintaining election in a massive country such as Bihar requires deployment of central forces, the Union domestic ministry may also at the ultimate second discover it tough to furnish Covid-free protection for the behavior of election. The Election Commission in that case state of affairs would be compelled to defer Bihar Assembly election.

However, a nearer seem at the political floor in Bihar shows that the aspiring contests do not see meeting election being deferred. Many leaders have switched facets in the remaining few weeks.

Shyam Rajak, a minister in the Nitish Kumar government, modified facets to be part of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the major rival of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JDU). Nitish Kumar used to be curiously advertising some other Dalit chief -- Uday Manjhi -- in Rajak's constituency, Phulwari in Patna.

Another JDU chief Javed Iqbal Ansari had joined the RJD in June. This got here towards the backdrop of the RJD attempting to consolidate its MY (Muslim-Yadav) electoral equation of the 1990s.

However, desertions have impacted the RJD extra adversely. At least five MLCs and six MLAs have stop the birthday party because July -- when talks of protecting Bihar meeting election on time received foreign money -- to be part of the JDU.

The RJD suffered a kind of loss of face when senior celebration member Chandrika Rai joined the JDU. Chandrika Rai's daughter Aishwarya is the estranged spouse of Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

The marriage, solemnized in May 2018, did no longer remaining lengthy as Tej Pratap filed a divorce plea in the court docket inside a few months. The be counted is undecided as of now. There is hypothesis that Aishwarya may contest in opposition to Tej Pratap from Mahua constituency in Vaishali district.

Nitish Kumar is searching to compensate the loss of Shyam Rajak with the return of Jitan Ram Manjhi to the JDU/NDA fold. Manjhi fashioned his personal Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) after quitting the JDU in the run up to 2015 polls.

With Jitan Ram Manjhi, Nitish Kumar additionally targets to counter the task posed via Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan, who is viewed to be nearer to the BJP, and has been attacking the chief minister over the difficulty of governance. He has undertaken a statewide political tour imparting himself as a future chief ministerial candidate.

On the different hand, the RJD-Congress's alliance is working to accommodate former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) and Mukesh Sahani's Vikassheel Insaaf Party (VIP). The Opposition alliance hopes to achieve an side over the ruling NDA with the aid of pocketing "extra" Dalit votes.

Also in the ring are former Union minister Yashwant Sinha with his United Democratic Alliance (UDA) of smaller outfits and Independent leaders, and former Lok Sabha MP Pappu Yadav with his Jan Adikar Party (JAP).

Sinha and Yadav intention to consolidate anti-Nitish anti-BJP votes in a way to inflict most harm on the ruling alliance in the election. They have but now not introduced help to the RJD-led Opposition camp.

All these multiplied political things to do and fast tempo of electioneering sign that the pending a ultimate name by way of the Election Commission, the political events in Bihar are generally prepared for the show.

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