Kisan Mahapanchayat's Verdict: Nitish Will Have To Go
Patna,(BiharTimes): The landed class has found enough political ground
to wage a war against the friend-turn-foe, the Bihar chief minister,
Nitish Kumar.
On Sunday, defying the scorching heat, they converged in thousands
only to train their big guns on the government which is indulging in
what they allege dividing the society between landed and landless,
forward and the backward.
As if that is not enough now it is busy creating fissure within the
community–– Dalit and Mahadalit, forward and backward Muslims and so
on and so forth.
Now the time has come to call the bluff, declared Independent MP from
Banka, Digvijay Singh. Lalu Yadav ruled by evoking the ghost of the
Hindutva, Nitish is doing exactly the same. He keeps reminding the
people of the Lalu-Rabri rule. But alternatives have always emerged
and it would emerge once again.
What Digvijay said was understandable as he was denied the Janata Dal
United ticket in the last parliamentary election a year back, but what
the former state party chief, Rajeev Ranjan Singh, alias Lallan Singh,
said is something really unbelievable, somewhat difficult to digest.
He publicly accused a senior officer of chief minister secretariat for
making several calls to ensure his (Lallan's) defeat in the last year
Lok Sabha election.
Nitish's most trusted lieutenant till a few months back, Lallan was
lethal in his attack. He left no stone unturned to expose each and
every (mis)deeds of his former friend. If Lalu Yadav can be forced to
bite dust, Nitish can be compelled to do so with much ease, he
proclaimed.
He said that he and his friends would not let Nitish push the state
into civil war and split all the castes, sub-castes and communities.
He also denied that Lalu Yadav had anything to do with the Kisan
Mahapanchayat and said Nitish wants to create Lalu phobia to
consolidate his position. He termed the state BJP president, C P
Thakur, as turncoat, as till the other day he was strongly opposed to
the Bataidari law of the state government, but changed his stand once
he got the post.
Lallan minced no words to denounce Nitish and said that there is no
difference between him and Lalu. The darbaris (courtiers) of both are
the same. He mentioned few names like Shyam Rajak, Ramai Ram,
Shivanand Tewary and others.
All the speakers came down heavily on the move to enact new Bataidari
Act in Bihar. Digvijay Singh went on to say that even the West Bengal
government has now abandoned Bandopadhyay, the man responsible for
Operation Barga. What Nitish had done in Bihar is known to all. When
he came to power there were 66 lakh people living below poverty line
in the state and now according to his own admission it is 1.5 crore.
Nitish had by his action thrown the state 15 years back when caste
polarization was at its height in the post-Mandal days.
Ridiculing the claim of the development Prabhunath Singh, former MP of
Maharajganj said, only one caste and one district of Bihar has
developed.
Reminding Jagdish Sharma, the suspended Janata Dal United MP from
Jehanabad, Prabhunath said that he publicly vowed that he would prefer
taking poison (chuhe marne ki dawa) rather than returning to the
Nitish Kumar camp. What has happened to him now? he asked. Those who
have betrayed the cause of the farmers would not be forgiven by the
masses.
Almost all the speakers criticized rampant loot in the name of
development in the last four and a half years and were unanimous that
Nitish will have to go.
Incidentally two RJD leaders and former Union ministers, Akhilesh
Singh, Nagmani and another former Union minister from UP, Arif
Mohammad Khan, were also on the dais and spoke on the occasion.
Sunday's rally was impressive given the fact that it was held under
the sun when the temperature was soaring high. Besides, it was
essentially a show of strength of two landed upper castes of Bihar.
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