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karen vichaar, theeke to hain Nitish
Kumar (meaning, Where’s the need
to think (about political alternatives)
when Nitish Kumar is doing just fine.”),
RJD came out with slogan Kyon na
karen vichaar, Bihar hai bimaar (why not
think for a change when Bihar is sick).
The RJD chief Lalu Prasad, presently
lodged in jail, tweeted “Do Hazar Bees,
ernment is said to have spent close
to 500 crore on advertisements and
such a whopping amount being spent
on advertisements without achieving
much in a poverty-ridden state like
Bihar is not a minor issue. Undoubt-
edly, Nitish Kumar seeks to pull Bihar
out of poverty by demanding special
status for the state and asks for a spe-
cial package; nonetheless on the other
hand, he spends whopping amount
of taxpayers’ money to build his own
image through advertisements and
that literally goes against his so-called
image of ‘Sushasan babu.’.

Way Ahead
Deteriorating law and order situa-
tion along with worst performance the meanwhile, political scenario in Hatao Nitish’ (Oust Nitish from power
on the SDG indicators and miserable the state is taking interesting turn, in 2020).”
performance on economic front make especially in the wake of declining Some analysts are sceptical about
it explicitly discernible that develop- influence of the BJP in the aftermath of Nitish Kumar’s return to power in
ment in Bihar in recent years has not recently-held assembly polls in Harya- the light of his poor performance on
resulted in improvement in quality of na, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra and all fronts despite the fact the JD(U)
life. the JD (U) is looking for a larger share will fight in alliance with the BJP. Like
As one expert has opined, “The in the electoral pie in the forthcoming JD (U), BJP also has little to boast of
propaganda of development being assembly polls in the state. about its achievements in the state
hyped by state government here is not Recent months have seen poster and as recent assembly elections in
translating into improvement in qual- wars between the JD (U) and the RJD. Jharkhand have shown that assembly
ity of life, generation of employment, In response to JD (U)’s slogan of Kyon election is different from Lok Sabha
quality of education is not improving, polls where local issues have come to
as schools and colleges are faced with rule the roost.
shortage of teachers. Similarly, there Bihar is not likely Besides, Nitish Kumar’s brazen
has been no improvement in health desire, as one analyst has opined, “to
sector and hospitals lack required to come out of its remain in power by willingly com-
number of doctors as well as infra- present terminal crisis promising friendships and principles,
structure and many development along with completely confounded
surveys reflecting the actual develop- unless the present politics and direction, means Nitish
ment in the state demonstrate lack of Kumar is now a pale shadow of his old
quality of life in Bihar.” dispensation puts self. He is no longer the great face of
Bihar is not likely to come out of its heart into the job. development he once tried to project.
its present terminal crisis unless the There is nothing that defines Kumar’s
present dispensation puts its heart into Though the task is politics or persona today, except his
the job. The task is much too gigantic too gigantic to be unabashed opportunism and U-turns.”
to be handled by the present dispen-
sation, given its proven ineptness. In handled by it LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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