sultan of swing

Nitish Kumar has done it again. He broke the alliance of his party Janata Dal (United) with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and changed his lot for the ideological division of India in the Lohiaist camp of Bihar led by Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Have given. Since he was the chief minister of the state with the support of the BJP, Kumar resigned from that post on Tuesday, but to stake a claim for a new government in partnership with the RJD, whose leader Tejashwi Yadav has turned to a political party to support him. The complaint was set aside. Kumar had last severed ties with the BJP in 2013, when the latter chose Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, but the anti-BJP pact fell apart despite electoral victories and the status quo was restored in Bihar. In the state’s 2020 elections, Kumar retained power as an ally of the BJP, but relations remained strained, and his party’s subsequent efforts to capture the political space played a role in the left behind him. Whether his party’s calculative ups and downs helped it in its electoral appeal remains questionable. But it speaks to the disorganization of the opposition in India that Kumar can still hope to lead a national anti-BJP front in 2024.