Lalu Prasad
Yadav, President of Rashtriya Janata Dal, and several families of his family,
have been raided by the income tax department on charges of corruption over the
past several days. The political equations of the state are also changing due
to the injury of these impressions. Lalu Prasad Yadav himself has stamped these
speculations through tweet. However, Lalu later diverted his first tweet and
turned the matter towards the media and government agencies.
Laloo Yadav surrounded
by income tax impressions
The Income
Tax Department raided the 22 bases of Laloo Prasad Yadav on Tuesday morning.
These raids have been linked with the benami
property. Following these impressions, Lalu Yadav tweeted that “BJP ko naya saathi Mubarak”(kudos to BJP
for its new ally). Lalu Prasad is not going to bend and fear. Until the last breath,
he will keep on fighting against fascist forces. This tweet about Lalu is
believed to be telling not to anyone but his ally Janta Dal United in the state
as a new ally of BJP. This is because the differences between RJD and JDU have
been deepening since the last few days.
Sushil Modi Gives Signal of Support
Bihar BJP
President Sushil Modi has been surrounded by allegations of corruption for Lalu
Yadav and his family for the past few days. The beginning was done with the
soil scam in which the question of the family of Lalu was raised. After that,
Misa Bharti was targeted for anonymity in Delhi and today the raids of income
tax were also made. The special thing is that Sushil Modi is an attacker on
Lalu Yadav while Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his party JDU are left with
it. Even Sushil Modi had clearly said a few days ago that if Nitish is
different from Lalu Yadav, then BJP can consider supporting him.
Nitish's big statement on PM's post
Nitish
Kumar, while completely rejecting the speculation about his ambitions in the
Prime Minister's post yesterday, said that he is not a fool and that he has no
ambition to become a Prime Candidate. This statement of Nitish is being seen as
a preparation for his entry in the NDA in a way because a section of opposition
and media has often been predicting Nitish's standing before Modi in the 2019
general elections.
Party-wise Equation in Bihar
In the
243-member Bihar Assembly, the number of 122 MLAs is required for the majority.
At present, 71 seats of JDU, 80 of RJD and 27 Congress MLAs are running a
coalition government. If Nitish breaks relationship with RJD and goes to the
NDA, then 27 Congress MLAs will also be withdrawn from the government. In such
a situation, Nitish needs 51 more legislators to save the government. BJP has
53 MLAs in the Assembly. Apart from this, 2 of LJP, 2 of RLSP, 1 of HAM, three
from CPI ML Liberation and 4 independent MLAs. That is, JDU and BJP together
can form the government because the figure of MLAs of both parties is 124 in
total.
Nitish does not have any Allergy to
BJP
Nitish Kumar
has joined the BJP together with the government. He was also the Railway
Minister during the Vajpayee Government. That is, Nitish has no problem with
the BJP at the level of ideology. Due to personal felicity from Narendra Modi
in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, his alliance with BJP broke and he had to form
a grand alliance in the assembly elections but Nitish was never as comfortable
with Lalu. On the other hand, his relationship with Narendra Modi has improved
considerably in the last two years. In such a situation, once again Nitish's
leadership in Bihar led to the formation of the NDA government, it would not be
surprising.
----Ashish Jha
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