Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rejected the post of convenor in the virtual India Alliance meeting yesterday, which created a stir.
JDU has expressed disappointment that no final decision has been given yet regarding seat sharing.
Senior JDU leader and Finance Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said on Sunday that the party believes that things have not happened as it wanted as the seat sharing system has still not been finalized.
India Bloc has still not made any outline on BJP. At the same time, the reason behind rejecting the post of coordinator is that if Nitish had accepted it, the bargaining power in seat sharing in Bihar would have reduced.
There are speculations that seat sharing talks between the grand alliance of six parties in Bihar are still making slow progress with JD(U), Congress, Left parties, especially CPI-ML (Liberation).
The minister further said, “No serious efforts have been made to finalize the seat sharing, the outline of the national campaign proposed earlier has also not been made.
We feel that things did not progress the way we had previously planned. JD(U) has objections to the delay in providing more strength to fight against the BJP. So far, India Alliance has held only four meetings and one virtual meeting till January 13.
India Alliance should work on seat sharing
The JDU minister, considered close to CM Nitish Kumar, stressed that the JDU national president had refused to become the block’s convenor despite being offered the post, adding that he had only confirmed that Kumar had never been a party convenor. Did not want to take the post.
The alliance, as he had always insisted, was aimed at uniting the opposition for a decisive fight against the BJP-led NDA.
Chaudhary said, “An impression was created that CM Kumar wants to take the post of convenor, but there is opposition from various parties. But yesterday this notion was broken because Nitish Kumar refused to take the post of coordinator.”
He said, “In yesterday’s meeting, CM Nitish Kumar also emphasized that instead of discussing about posts, the block should work rapidly on big tasks like finalizing seat sharing, campaign and other nuances. “
..That’s why Nitish Kumar rejected the post?
Grand alliance insiders say there were some issues regarding seat sharing because if Nitish Kumar had accepted the post of convenor, allies like RJD could have put pressure on JD(U) to compromise on their demand of 17 seats. Were.
A senior JD-U leader said Nitish Kumar had no option but to refuse the convenor post as it made no sense now.
“Why should he go for an unimportant post and lose his bargaining power in seat sharing? There are not many people in the opposition alliance who can match his political stature.
He is alone in Bihar.” However, RJD state spokesperson Chittaranjan Gagan said that the option of making CM Nitish Kumar the block convenor is still open and a consensus will be reached soon. He said, “Efforts are being made to create a consensus on making CM Nitish Kumar the convenor of India Alliance. Once that happens, the CM can become the convener.”
‘RJD wants to send Nitish to central politics’
Social analyst and former director of AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, DM Diwakar, says that after being made the chairperson, it makes no sense for Nitish Kumar to accept the post of conveyor and go into central politics to make room for Tejashwi. Which was what Lalu Prasad wants.
Congress was always reluctant to make Nitish the convenor and hence it refused to give him a bigger role and delayed the process. However, RJD wanted Nitish Kumar to go into central politics, but Nitish Kumar has unmatched political skills and he cannot go into national politics at the cost of state politics.
Diwakar said that BJP also realizes the importance of Nitish Kumar. Ultimately, the path will be difficult for BJP without Nitish.
Despite working with the BJP leadership, Nitish never allowed them to come to the fore and thus he has always kept himself in focus.
What he will do next, only Nitish Kumar can tell, because he knows how to balance things.
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