The RJD seems to be weighing the option of contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha poll on its own strength. It will consider doing so if the rift’ within Bihar’s ruling grand alliance (GA) widens and there is lack of consensus over the PM candidate of the proposed secular block to take on the BJP.
This new possibility - some would call it a gambit, arose amid speculation that the RJD’s GA partner, the JD(U) was keen to push its national president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for the top post
The RJD’s strategy to be lead player in the three party coalition in the run up to the 2019 poll, became evident on Sunday when deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav reportedly asking his party men, whether the party had the wherewithal to contest the 2019 poll alone.
The query ran contrary to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s recent assertion that there was ‘no rift within the GA’ and alliance would remain intact till after the 2019 poll.
Some RJD leaders, however, claimed Tejashwi had only talked of strengthening the RJD organizational base by 2019, so that the party could regain its pole position. View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
Tejashwi had earlier raised hackles of the GA partners, by claiming the three party coalition won the November 2015 Bihar assembly poll because of Lalu Prasad’s own vote base and his impeccable secular credentials. The JD (U) countered this, saying the GA won due to CM Kumar’s image as pro- development man with a secular image.
Source:-Hindustantimes
This new possibility - some would call it a gambit, arose amid speculation that the RJD’s GA partner, the JD(U) was keen to push its national president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for the top post
The RJD’s strategy to be lead player in the three party coalition in the run up to the 2019 poll, became evident on Sunday when deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav reportedly asking his party men, whether the party had the wherewithal to contest the 2019 poll alone.
The query ran contrary to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s recent assertion that there was ‘no rift within the GA’ and alliance would remain intact till after the 2019 poll.
Some RJD leaders, however, claimed Tejashwi had only talked of strengthening the RJD organizational base by 2019, so that the party could regain its pole position. View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
Tejashwi had earlier raised hackles of the GA partners, by claiming the three party coalition won the November 2015 Bihar assembly poll because of Lalu Prasad’s own vote base and his impeccable secular credentials. The JD (U) countered this, saying the GA won due to CM Kumar’s image as pro- development man with a secular image.
Source:-Hindustantimes
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