HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS NITISH KUMAR’S “EXPERIMENTAL POLITICAL GAME” IN BHOJPUR?

HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS NITISH KUMAR’S “EXPERIMENTAL POLITICAL GAME” IN BHOJPUR?

4-NOV-ENG 13

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA--------------------------Nitish Kumar has adopted experimental politics in two assembly constituencies of Bhojpur, Sandesh and Jagdishpur. This is why two JDU MLCs, Radha Charan Sah and Shri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, have been nominated as party candidates, as both areas are established RJD strongholds. Strategists believe that if they win, they will be lucky; if they lose, the party will still have two MLCs. However, strategists say that this is Nitish Kumar's experimental politics, which many will not understand.

According to the election results, such experiments were done in the previous elections in Sandesh Vidhansabha, the result went strongly in favor of RJD and as RJD candidate, Kiran Devi, wife of former MLA Arun Yadav, got a record 79599 votes, elder brother and former MLA Vijendra Yadav, who was in the opposition, got 28992 votes and Shweta Singh got 28500 votes, that is, even the political experiments done in the year 2020 could not extinguish the flame of the lantern. In the Lok Sabha elections also, Sudama Prasad defeated RK Singh by more than 20 thousand votes by taking 82611 votes from this area. Mr. Singh had got 62007 votes. In this election, Nitish Kumar, in his pursuit of experimental politics, has fielded his MLC, Radha Charan Shah, also known as Sethji. Sethji has maintained a cordial relationship with the well-known Arun Yadav, the adopted son of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi, and his elder brother, Vijendra Yadav, for years. Arun Yadav wields such influence in the RJD that he first secured his own ticket to become an MLA, then secured a ticket for his wife, and now has his son, Deepu Ranawat, as the party candidate. However, time has yet to determine how effective the opposition of Block Chief Mukesh Yadav, former District Council Chairperson Phoolwanti Devi, and the Narayanpur Mukhiya, who is of Deepu Ranawat's clan, will be. Both parties are known as sand mafias. Another prominent figure, Shri Singh of Masad, has also entrusted his son with the banner of Jansuraj. It's worth noting that Kiran Devi won the last election by approximately 50,000 votes. Following previous public opposition, Sethji has secured the support of former BJP MP RK Singh. It is.

More or less, the situation seems to be developing in Jagdishpur as well. Nitish Kumar has played the experimental politics by making Shri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, MLC of this area, the alleged accused of Ichari massacre and a chameleon-like changer, the party candidate. Whereas Ram Bishun Singh alias Lohia Ji continues to hold this assembly constituency, considered to be the stronghold of RJD. He got 66 thousand 632 votes and the current JDU candidate Shri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha got 44 thousand 525 votes. That means Lohia Ji defeated Shri Bhagwan Singh by about 22 thousand votes. This time Lohia Ji has fielded his son in the election by giving him RJD ticket. That means like Sandesh Vidhan Sabha.

Although the Jansuraj Party is not strong, it could cause some harm to the NDA alliance candidate by cutting votes. However, if we consider the previous statements made by R.K. Singh, the NDA alliance could harm the JDU candidate. Shri Bhagwan Singh, who belongs to the Kushwaha caste, first became an MLA from the CPI(ML) and then joined the RJD. He contested the Lok Sabha elections from the Ara parliamentary constituency under the RJD banner, losing. However, after opposing Nitish Kumar, he once again aligned with the JDU and became the party candidate from Jagdishpur this time. During the Lok Sabha elections, R.K. Singh received 63,362 votes from this constituency, while the Grand Alliance's CPI(ML) candidate Sudama Prasad received 83,534 votes. Mr. Singh lost by approximately 20,000 votes.

However, if the data is analyzed in conjunction with Jansuraj, it is difficult to predict how successful Nitish Kumar's experimental politics will be.