Nitish sings yeh dosti hum nahi todenge...
25 Jan 2010, 0258 hrs IST, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday set to rest all
speculation about the fate of the NDA in the state during the upcoming
assembly polls, and asserted that JD(U) and BJP would contest the
looming electoral battle together again.
``I am not a politician who thinks of ditching an ally. Both the
parties enjoy strong bonds of relations and the leaders of the two
parties know each other for a long period from being an opposition to
attaining the seat of power,'' Mr Kumar told a news channel in
response to a query.
The Bihar chief minister's categorical assertion about the future of
the alliance in the state puts cold water on the argument being dished
by a section of political observers, both here and in Patna, that he
was getting ready to do a Naveen Patnaik on BJP. They were alluding to
BJD's decision to sever its ties with its alliance partner, BJP, in
Orissa on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls held last year.
Bihar goes to polls later this year, and the JD(U)-BJP government
would face the upcoming electoral battle on the basis of its
report-card in the last four years. The state had notched up a
growth-rate of 11.03 % during this period, enabling it to shake-off
its image of being a laggard.
The JD(U) leader said the alliance had ushered in a semblance of
governance after 15 years of RJD (mis)rule, first under Mr Lalu Prasad
and, later, under his wife Rabri Devi, and claimed that the state had
scripted a turn-around, and that now ``Bihari'' was no longer a
pejorative term.
Making it clear that he was not rattled by the setback the ruling
alliance suffered in the by-polls to 18 assembly constituencies last
year after a spectacular performance in the Lok Sabha polls, the chief
minister said the alliance was strong as evident from the coordination
between the two parties catering to all sections, including
minorities.
"If doing justice to mahadalits which they deserve after having
remained neglected for decades is being alleged as an attempt to
divide the dalits, it can be termed as nothing but mental bankruptcy,"
he said, talking about charges being hurled at him by the Lalu
Prasad-Ram Vilas Paswan duo of indulging in divisive politics.
"Go and ask the dalits about their happiness because of the state
government's initiatives for what they deserve,'' he said.
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