You can use your trump card only once; you can’t repeat it again and again. The latest slogan of RJD leader Lalu Yadav exhorting the people to “ Mandal se kmandal ko phod do” (Break the Kamandal with Mandal) is nothing but a desperate attempt to gain some sympathy and support of the OBCs. Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar who have joined hands to contest Bihar elections should remember that the trump card of Mandal was used by V P Singh in 1990 to rally the OBCs behind him. It can’t be used again. Moreover, the country’s polity has undergone change after 1990. All political parties be it national or regional have accorded due importance and given space to the OBCs. The Bharatiya Janata Party has taken lead in giving prominence to the OBCs in the country. One may ask the propagandists of Mandal how ‘Mandal can break Mandal”?
The man who played trump card of mandal |
So far Bihar is concerned people of the state have seen the bluff of Lalu Yadav when he was chief minister of the state. The RJD government did little to uplift the lot of poor and the backwards in the state. Whatever little was done for the OBCs in the state it was during the coalition government of the BJP and JD (U). Once Nitish Kumar broke away from the BJP and formed government with the help of the RJD, situation in Bihar has worsened. There is total chaos in the administration, the law and order has deteriorated on the brink of ‘jungle raj’. With what face the leaders of the ‘grand alliance’ against the BJP in Bihar are seeking support of the people.
The people of Bihar have shown their preference in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections for voting overwhelmingly in favour of Narendra Modi. This time also when elections are held to elect a new government, the people of Bihar would chose a BJP government since people cutting across caste line favour the leadership of Narendra Modi.
....R K SINHA, MP
you are right sir, politician dont take chapter from past. nice article
ReplyDeleteCentral Argument of the article that trump can be used once is really appreciable. The politics of the country change a lot in these 25 years and it become more development oriented rather then caste. We hope that electorate of Bihar vote on development agenda rather then caste
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