Bihar Vidhan Sabha Election: Assembly elections will be held in Bihar in October-November. Before this, Congress is trying to regain its lost political ground in Bihar, but its path will not be easy in the alliance.
Patna: Congress is leading the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA Bloc). In alliance politics, parties have to make many compromises. Every party has its own agenda, its own principles and it is not easy to maintain coherence between them. The influence of one party can benefit the entire alliance, while the defamation of one party can also harm all the allies. Even though Congress is leading a big alliance, it is forced to keep its principles and beliefs limited to itself. It cannot show its eyes to the allies like BJP.
In Bihar, the indications so far are that the main allies of the All India Alliance, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), will contest the elections together. However, Congress is facing a huge dilemma because of RJD. The process of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list of the Election Commission is going on in Bihar. Both Congress and RJD opened a front against the central government and the Election Commission against this process.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav lodged an objection against the Election Commission for removing the names of 65 lakh voters from the list of the state. He even claimed that his name is not in the voter list. When the Election Commission replied to him that his name is in the list of two different constituencies, he did not have any precise answer. After this, a case has also been registered against him on the charge of getting two voter cards made. He has also received a notice from the Election Department.
RJD has not only suffered due to this incident, Congress is also facing the brunt of it. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was going to take out a ‘Vote Rights Yatra’ with Tejashwi Yadav on August 10 in Bihar, but Congress’s own ally RJD was accused of misusing the right to vote. Now the question is how can Rahul Gandhi talk about the right to vote in front of the common people? He has been forced to postpone this journey.
Will Tejashwi talk about the right to vote with Rahul now?
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s journey in Bihar will now start from Sasaram on August 17. Sasaram is in Rohtas district. However, it is not clear whether the name of this journey will remain ‘Vote Rights Yatra’ as before or not. At present, its purpose seems to be to create an atmosphere for the Bihar assembly elections. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will join this journey on the first day itself. Leaders of the India Alliance will also participate in this journey which will be held in several phases. If Rahul Gandhi will take up this journey on the issue of voters’ rights, will Tejashwi Yadav also join him? This is a question, the answer to which the Congress will have to find.
Authored by: Suryakant Pathak
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Suryakant Pathak is a consultant at Navbharat Times Online. He has been doing journalism for the last 31 years. He writes news, analysis and blogs on India’s international relations, political-social developments in the country and the world. He started as a reporter in Dainik Bhaskar in 1995 and then worked for Naiduniya, Amar Ujala, ET
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