How BJP Can Win Over its Enemy Nitish Kumar

So the run-up to upcoming general elections has started with some unpredictable scene. While the whole country was expecting this to be BJP Vs Congress Party war, a new face has made this fight multi-dimensional. Officially JDU and Nitish Kumar say that they have nothing in common with and will never ally with Congress Party. But the manner in which Nitish Kumar is attacking Narendra Modi with intensity increasing with proximity to the general elections, his actions are proving different than his words.
 

The best strategy for Congress Party is to make NDA allies fight each other because it can’t win next elections on the basis of its performance. It can only win if there is no one to challenge it. The biggest alleys of Congress are some of the most corrupt political parties and dynasties, be it Mayawati, Mulayam, DMK or NCP. In fact now UPA led by Congress Party is considered synonym with political corruption in India. Therefore it was important for the sake of the nation that all opposition parties with integrity should unite and give a tough fight to the Congress party. Alas, this is far from what is happening!
 

Nitish Kumar has been acting as an agent of Congress Party. His histrionics against Narendra Modi looks so ugly that it is but natural that his own personal integrity would be starting to be questioned. What does Bihar’s CM got to do with the CM of a faraway state which does not even share boundaries with it? People have failed to understand this and it will not be late when they will realize the truth behind Nitish’s veiled attack on Modi.
 

Nitish Kumar plays minority vote bank politics. His goal is to steal Muslim voters from going towards any other party especially Laloo’s RJD. Biased favors, policies and schemes made with communal vote bank politics in mind, state sponsored racial and communal discrimination – these are the less known sides of his so falled “Bihar’s growth story”. This is the dark side of his government and such communal politics is forcing him to attack Narendra Modi with the assumption that Muslims will love it.
 

JDU has 115 seats in Bihar assembly while BJP has 91. In the last elections, JDU added 27 seats while BJP won 36 new seats. In fact the speed at which BJP is gaining ground in Bihar, is also one of the worries of shrewd politician like Nitish Kumar.
 

So what should the BJP do to pacify Nitish’s attack? It should ask for what is its right. All across India when two equal parties make a coalition, there is also a fair sharing of power. Why should Nitish Kumar alone enjoy the CM’s Chair? Why should not there also be a CM from the BJP? I am sure if BJP demanded its right to have its own CM for rest of the term, Nitish Kumar will be forced to come down to fair terms.
 

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Indian Democracy is Faulty on Caste and Religious Lines

I think our democracy is faulty because it has been exploited on religious and caste lines. It does not matter by which party, because if a fault line exists someone or the other will exploit it.
 

Ideally we should have declared a state religion after a separate nation was created for followers of Mhd. Since we chose a difficult path, religious minorities became vote banks and Hindus had to live with minority appeasements and also we keep seeing communal riots.
 

Next, caste politics decides who is going to win in most of the seats. The caste based politics stemmed from politics of payoffs by quota and other benefits. All our reservations, subsidy, and scholarships should have been for poor people below poverty lines irrespective of castes. But we made open casteism our state politics and hence worst kind of people came over to rule us, exploiting us by divide and rule policy!
 

I think there is no pride in the fact that our democracy is being exploited by petty people by dividing us on caste and religious lines. I know almost every wrong thing can be attributed to the dynasty ruling us, but I believe if they did not do it then someone else would have done it. We should stop state sponsored casteism and religious discrimination. Then only politics of growth will remain and India will see real growth…