‘KHELA HOBE’ IF LALU REACHES PATNA!

Patna: There is going to be a big political game in Bihar on the pretext of caste based census. Nitish will remain the Chief Minister but the political equation will change. In the midst of fierce opposition from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government in Bihar is going to conduct a caste-based census and soon the counting of castes will start.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has assured the Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, who was about to start a protest and march on the issue of caste census. Before that, he had gone to meet the Chief Minister for the last time to know his opinion on this issue. In this meeting, the Chief Minister told him that very soon he would convene a meeting of all parties on this issue and start the caste-based census. Keep in mind that Nitish has already announced that the Bihar government will get the caste count done in the state at its own expense.

The caste-based census can become the basis for the polarization of backward castes in Bihar and the coming together of JDU-RJD. The issue is already shared between the two parties and the Chief Minister had gone to meet the Prime Minister with the demand of caste census, along with Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav. BJP leaders were also included in this all-party delegation but this was not their agenda. Since the coming together of Nitish and Tejashwi in the name of counting of castes, both the parties grew closer and in the same proportion the distance between JDU and BJP has started increasing. Despite the complete surrender of BJP, the matter seems to have worsened.

Nitish and Tejashwi have met publicly at least thrice in the last one month. Nitish first attended the iftar given by RJD at Rabri Devi’s residence. After that Tejashwi attended the Iftar party given by Nitish’s party and then Tejashwi went to meet the Chief Minister regarding the caste census. Now Lalu Prasad is waiting to reach Bihar. He has been released after getting bail in the last fodder scam case and is at his daughter Misa Bharti’s house in Delhi.

Lalu Prasad will go to Patna at the end of this month or in the first week of next month and this time, his 74th birthday, falling on June 11, is to be celebrated with great pomp. Before that he will reach Patna. It is being told that Nitish Kumar is to meet him on that occasion or even before that. Informed sources say that this was discussed in Tejashwi’s meeting with Nitish recntly. It is also being said that Lalu Prasad has agreed that the equation should be like 2015. That is, Nitish Kumar should be the Chief Minister and Tejashwi should become the Deputy Chief Minister. If this game happens then BJP will face a major setback.