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| Grand alliance tears into BJP, questions its nationalist credentials | | J&K in Bihar elections | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 31: Election process to constitute a new assembly in Bihar is on and the country would come to know on November 8 as to who wins the crucial elections. Interestingly, the Maha Gathvandhan (Grand Alliance) of the JDU, RJD and Congress has been raking up the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley and attacking the BJP from right and left for what has been happening in the state since March this year. The JDU, the RJD and the Congress leaders, who are attracting good crowds and have made things quite difficult for the BJP, despite hectic campaigning by PM Modi, have been exposing what they term as its separatist-friendly approach in Kashmir. In fact, they are charging the BJP with hobnobbing with separatists like Sajad Lone, minister in the Mufti-led coalition government out of the BJP's quota. "how could the BJP claim that it is a nationalist outfit when it is in league with separatists like Sajad Lone?", they are asking.
"The BJP has no moral right to question the secular credentials of the Grand Alliance," they are telling the Bihari electorate and urging it to "inflict a humiliating defeat on PM Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah by rejecting the BJP-led NDA candidates and returning to power the Maha Gathvandhan under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar". Nitish Kumar has been at the helm of affairs for almost nine years now and he is very popular in Bihar.
On Friday, the grand Alliance leadership launched a scathing attack on the BJP in general and PM Modi and Amit Shah in particular and asked the BJP to explain the basis on which they have entered into alliance in JK.
"BJP only indulges in politics of convenience" and that "its claim that it is a nationalist and secular outfit is fake". They say the situation in Kashmir has deteriorated to the extent that anti-India elements in the Valley have been hoisting Pakistani and IS (Islamic State) flags on every Friday and organizing anti-India events in the Valley at regular intervals.
Not only the Maha Gathvandhan leadership, which claims that it has already won the Bihar election and defeated PM Modi and Amit Shah and the BJP-led NDA, even leading journalists like Arnab Goswami of Times Now, too, are exposing the "double-speak" and "dual approach" of the BJP. They are questioning the BJP's credentials and telling the top BJP leadership on its face that it has been trying to communalize the whole election campaign to polarize the Bihari electorate to win the Bihar election, which is being described by political pundits as mini general election the outcome of which will impact the 2019 general elections. "The BJP has turned so desperate for a win in Bihar that it has started pitting Muslims against the Hindus and the vice-versa".
The point is that the BJP's role in J&K and its association with separatists like Sajad Lone has become a big issue in the Bihar elections and many pollsters predict defeat of the BJP and victory of the Grand Alliance. One of the leading journalists, who claims that he knows the ground situation in Bihar, goes to the extent of asserting that "Delhi would be replicated in Bihar". In the Delhi assembly elections held this year, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) had won 67 out of 70 seats and the BJP had won a paltry three seats, as against its earlier tally of 32 seats. |
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