PK DIG AT NITISH AS BJP’S SAMRAT BECOMES DY CM
Ace poll strategist and founder of Jan Suraaj Abhiyan Prashant Kishor on Sunday made a veiled attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after the BJP gave the post of deputy chief minister to Samrat Choudhary, the son of a veteran politician.
Importantly, Nitish recently made a remark about dynasty politics against RJD chief Lalu Yadav and Congress. He was addressing the birth centenary celebrations of former chief minister Karpoori Thakur on January 24.
The CM started criticising Lalu four days before severing ties with the RJD and forming a new government with the BJP. Lalu's son Tejashwi Yadav was the deputy chief minister and Tej Pratap was a minister in the previous grand alliance regime.
Taking out his ‘Jan Suraaj Yatra’ in Bihar, Kishor said, “Dynasty politics was the biggest issue during the 'Total Revolution' launched by Jayaprakash Narayan in 1975 but now no party is aloof from the dynastic politics.
This malaise is not limited only to the RJD and the Congress.”
The poll strategist said state BJP president Choudhary's father Shakuni Choudhary was an MLA and a minister when the Congress was in power in the state and held these positions by alternatively joining hands with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad. He said Shakuni also joined hands with former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. Shakuni had taken ‘sanyas’ from politics after his defeat in the 2015 assembly election.
Kishor said now the BJP had given the post of deputy chief minister to Samrat, amply proving how it was also pursuing the dynasty politics despite its opposition to it. Those who had become MPs and MLAs in the state over the last 30 years belonged to around 1,250 families only.
“The impact of dynasty politics is such huge that these families join hands with parties in power in the state,” he stated. PK further said that dynasty politics was eating into the vitals of democracy not only in Bihar but in other parts of the country too.