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If BJP beats JDU in 2020 election, who will be CM?

All election forecasting is based on assumptions. But what if there is a counter-assumption, what if the BJP, due to Narendra Modi’s towering performance, is able to best its best friend in Bihar, Nitish Kumar. Then who will be the Chief Minister of Bihar?

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Kyo kare vichar, theek to hai Nitish Kumar, the slogan had come out after a war of words between Janata Dal-United and the BJP over the chief ministerial candidate in Bihar before the election. A few days later the BJP had clarified that even if his party wins more seats than the JDU, Nitish Kumar will be the NDA chief minister if voted back to power. Bihar’s ruling National Democratic Alliance on October 6 had declared that the JDU will contest from 122 seats while the BJP will be given the remaining 121. However, Vikassheel Insaan Party and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha were later added to the alliance and allotted 11 and 7 seats respectively. This leaves Nitish Kumar’s party with 115 and the BJP with 110 seats to contest from.

All election forecasting is based on assumptions. But what if there is a counter-assumption, what if the BJP, due to Narendra Modi’s towering performance, is able to best its best friend in Bihar, Nitish Kumar. Then who will be the Chief Minister of Bihar? The current Nitish deputy, Sushil Kumar Modi? Or others. Here we have a look at the what-ifs and who-ifs.  

Nityanand Rai

Nityanand Rai, 54, who has emerged as the BJP’s Yadav face in Bihar, is the leading contender for Chief Minister. Though the BJP traditionally has been associated with upper castes and Yadavs have supported Lalu Prasad’s RJD, Rai has been associated with the Sangh Parivar since 1981, joining the ABVP that year as a student activist. He won the Hajipur Assembly seat from 2000 and 2010 while he won from Ujiarpur Lok Sabha seat in 2014. In 2016, the party chose Rai as its Bihar unit president, making him the first OBC leader to head it in the state after continuous terms under upper caste leaders like Radha Mohan Singh, Dr CP Thakur and Mangal Pandey. The current BJP state unit chief is Sanjay Jaiswal.

Sushil Modi

Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has emerged as the key link between Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United and the BJP high command. Sushil Modi and Kumar have also had a long history of working together since the Jayaprakash Narayan-led Sampoorna Kranti movement. Sushil Modi was with the ABVP then while Nitish, a student of the Bihar College of Engineering, was influenced by the socialism of JP and Ram Manohar Lohia.

Now in 2020, Sushil Modi may have been the best man for too long and may finally get the chance to be groom. Sushil Modi has played a key role in the selection of party candidates and is a star campaigner for the NDA. But will he be able to overcome potential challengers in this khayali pulao?

Sanjay Jaiswal

Firstly, Sanjay Jaiswal had contested the election in February 2005 from Bettiah Assembly constituency on the RJD ticket and lost, he  then moved to the BJP and represented Bettiah Lok Sabha constituency from 1996 to 2004. By September 2019, he was the president of the Bihar BJP unit. His father Madan Prasad Jaiswal had been an active Sangh Parivar activist and was one of the founding members of the BJP. Three-time MP Sanjay Jaiswal has good equations with leaders at the centre, and in Bihar too. And is low-key too.

Giriraj Singh

Union Minister Giriraj Singh is the firebrand figure of the BJP and is notably well-known for several utterances of his, which, controversially, have ended with the word Pakistan. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha election against CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai. This when he was ranged against the best of south Delhi glitterati trooping in for Kanhaiya, a cause celebre since his JNUSU moment of stardom and his leke rahenge aazadi hymn (?).

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In the Lok Sabha election from Nawada in 2014, Giriraj had kicked up a huge row with his remarks that those opposed to Modi should go back to Pakistan as there is no place for them in India.

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Congress Bihar leader Akhilesh Prasad says he will speak to Rahul Gandhi on poll mistakes

Major changes are needed at the organisation level for winning any state election, Singh said. He said he had sought an appointment with Rahul Gandhi to discuss the way ahead.

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Congress Bihar campaign in-charge Akhilesh Prasad Singh on Thursday broke his silence on the party’s disappointing performance in the Assembly elections. Taking responsibility for the defeat in Bihar, he said the biggest mistake was to contest from the wrong seats. He said he will tell former president Rahul Gnadhi that there is a need to tackle weaknesses in the organisation and make it sharper.

Major changes are needed at the organisation level for winning any state election, Singh said. He said he had sought an appointment with Rahul Gandhi to discuss the way ahead. He told NDTV that the Congress took a hasty decision eventually on the seats. There were weaknesses in the party, especially at the state, district and block levels, he said.

This is the latest statement of a senior leader in the midst of a meltdown within the Congress after being blamed for the Mahagathbandhan’s so-near-yet-so-far loss in Bihar. On the statement of Kapil Sibal, Akhilesh Prasad Singh said he respected Sibal but this kind of analysis was not good after the defeat.

The ruckus within the party had started after Kapil Sibal called for experienced minds, experienced hands and those who understand political realities for reviving the party from visible decline. He had also demanded some major organisational changes in party. P Chidambaram, another senior Congress leader, had said the results in Bihar and bypolls elsewhere showed the Congress had no organisational presence left on the ground. He had also pointed out that the Congress had contested much more seats than its organisational strength could do justice to.

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After Bihar assembly election and Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and UP bypolls, the pundits along with some Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan had blamed the Congress for not pulling its weight in the alliance.

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In Nitish Kumar cabinet, new Deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad gets Finance and IT, other Deputy Renu Devi gets Panchayati Raj

New Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad has got finance, environment, urban development and information technology while the second Deputy CM Renu Devi got Panchayati Raj, Backward Caste Upliftment and Industry portfolios.

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At the age of 69, Nitish Kumar has become the longest-serving Chief Minister of Bihar after winning the election to the 243-member Bihar Assembly. Kumar has kept home, general administration, vigilance and three more departments for himself. New Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad has got finance, environment, urban development and information technology while the second Deputy CM Renu Devi got Panchayati Raj, Backward Caste Upliftment and Industry portfolios.

Mukesh Sahni, the only leader of the Vikassheel Insaan Party, has been given the Animal Husbandry and Fishery portfolio and BJP senior leader Mangal Pandey has retained the Health ministry. Pandey has also been the Bihar BJP president from 2013 to 2017. Bijendra Yadav has got Planning, Food, and Consumer Affairs in the new Nitish Kumar cabinet.

Former Assembly Speaker and JDU leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary got the charge of rural engineering, rural development, water resources, parliamentary affairs, and information and public relations. Mewalal Choudhary will be the new education minister while Sheela Kumari has been allocated the transport ministry.

Jibesh Kumar, who defeated Maskoor Ahmad Usmani by a massive margin from Jale constituency, has been given charge of tourism, mines and labour. Santosh Kumar Suman, the son of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, has been given the minor irrigation and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe welfare portfolios, Surat Rai will be the new revenue and law minister of the state.

BJP’s Amrendra Pratap Singh will handle agriculture, cooperatives, and sugarcane departments, and Rampreet Paswan will be the new public health engineering minister.

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Nitish Kumar on Monday took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the fourth consecutive term after edging out the Mahagathbandan in the election to the 243-member Bihar Assembly. The National Democratic Alliance of the BJP, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular and Mukesh Sahni’s Vikashsheel Insaan Party secured 125 seats. With 74 winning seats, the BJP got an upper hand in the state for teh first time ever while the JDU tally shrunk to 43 from 71 seats earlier, marking its worst performance since the 2005 Assembly polls. NDA allies VIP and HAM(S) secured four seats each. The RJD emerged as the single-largest party with 75 seats while the Congress won just 19 of the 70 seats it contested on and 16 seats were won by the Left parties who contested 29 seats.

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Nitish Kumar back in Bihar saddle with 2 new deputy CMs

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Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth straight term on Monday in the presence of BJP senior leaders including Home Minister Amit Shah, party chief JP Nadda and former chief minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis. The leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan boycotted the ceremony, claiming the mandate in the elections was against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and that it had been changed by fraud.

BJP’s Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi took oath as Kumar’s new deputies, instead of old, trusted Sushil Modi. Hours after Nitish Kumar’s oath, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated him and said the NDA family will work together in Bihar.

On the midnight of November 10, the NDA achieved the majority by winning 125 seats in Bihar’s 243-member House, three above the halfway mark. By winning 74 seats in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election, the BJP gained the upper hand in the alliance from the JDU, which won just 43 seats and became the junior ally. The RJD emerged as the single largest party of Bihar with 76 seats.  Observers credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal popularity for the NDA’s victory.  

Political pundits and the people of Bihar expected Sushil Modi as his deputy but the speculation is that the BJP is promoting Sushil Modi to a role at the central level. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, after the oath-taking ceremony, told the media that the BJP needs to be asked why Sushil Modi was not chosen as the deputy CM of Bihar again.

Sushil Modi said the NDA has once again formed the government in the state based on the people’s decision. It is the decision of the BJP to not field Sushil Modi as the Deputy Chief Minister. He said the party needs to be asked why he wasn’t allowed to contest elections.

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