Union Minister: India Bloc In Bihar Is Likely To Disintegrate

New Delhi: A major BJP ally from Bihar said on Saturday that the state’s governing coalition is “100%” guaranteed to fall and that the consecration of the Ram temple would be a “good development” for the NDA, in response to the JD(U)’s apparent dissatisfaction with the opposition INDIA bloc members.
Disagreements between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party leader Lalu Prasad have widened, according to Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras.

“There is no doubt in my mind that their coalition will fail. The Hindu concept of “Kharmas,” or an unlucky time, is over. In Ayodhya, the idol of Lord Ram will be dedicated on January 22. Whatever occurs would be beneficial for the BJP-led NDA since this is a favorable time,” he told PTI.

The Dalit politician said that the opposition has no chance of winning the polls since the whole nation, especially Bihar, is engulfed in the fervor around the Ram temple.

When asked whether the matter would affect Bihar, where the coalition of the RJD, JD(U), Congress, and Left is seen as robust, Insisting that the combination would soon break apart, Paras predicted that they will all be destroyed in the Lok Sabha elections.

The JD(U) has long advocated for the appointment of its president, Kumar, to a prominent role within the opposition INDIA alliance.

When Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the Congress, was named the bloc’s chairman, Kumar’s bid to become the alliance’s convener was met with chilly resistance by the party.

Within the JD(U), there is a belief that Kumar’s efforts to unite opposition parties and his seniority as the longest-serving chief minister of the coalition have not received the proper recognition.

After meeting with Kumar on Friday, Prasad and his son, Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister, rejected rumors that their coalition was at odds.

The BJP would take into consideration any suggestion for Kumar or the party’s other former partners to rejoin the NDA, according to a recent statement made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, which has further heightened the rumors surrounding state politics.

In the past, Shah had said that Kumar’s chances of working with the BJP were gone.

In response to rumors that his mother could run for the Hajipur seat, a pocket borough held by his late father Ram Vilas Paswan, Paras also made fun of his nephew and Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan.

Paswan, who has been winning from Jamui since 2014, wants to recover what he feels is his father’s political heritage, while Paras, who now represents the constituency in the Lok Sabha, is eager to run for the seat again.

No matter what Chirag Paswan says, it is irrelevant. He said that it was his right to run from Hajipur since he was the sitting member of parliament and that “what matters to me is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Shah, and BJP president J P Nadda tell me.”

Paras stated it was “embarrassing” that his nephew forced his mother to stand on a political dais in Bihar since she had always opposed entering politics, and he claimed that it was Ram Vilas Paswan who had chosen him to represent Hajipur in the Lok Sabha.

Although Chirag Paswan is technically a member of the same party, the Union minister pointed out that his fraction has been recognized as the parent Lok Janshakti Party in the Lok Sabha and claimed that it was his “mercy” that, in his capacity as its leader, he did not take steps to have his membership terminated for “anti-party activities”.

After the split within the parent Lok Janshakti Party, the Election Commission recognized Paswan’s faction as the LJP (Ram Vilas) and Paras’s group as the RLJP. However, since five of the party’s six MPs sided with Paswan, the minister was acknowledged as the group’s head in the Lok Sabha.

The BJP will now have to conduct a very delicate balancing act between the two leaders since the Jamui MP has also joined the NDA.

According to BJP insiders, the party is trying to iron things out before the Lok Sabha elections.

In a jab at Paswan, Paras said that the BJP had his nephew attend the NDA gathering because it wanted to unite additional allies in a forceful display of unity after the formation of the INDIA bloc by the opposition last year.