Bihar:Congress left mahagath bandhan, RJD hits back

In a latest political developmet in Bihar, Congress has exited from thr RJD led mahagath bandhan. Congress in-charge for Bihar Bhakta Charan Das told reporters after landing in Patna on Friday that we are not in Mahaghatbandhan (grand alliance) in Bihar. A decision to this effect was taken after October 16 after what happened at Kusheshwarsthan which was snatched from us. What is the use of having such an alliance? The thought procedures of the two parties are not in sync. Das added that Congress wants to contest all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in 2024 on its own. Asked if the Congress could review its stance if the RJD approach them to continue the alliance, Das said, “The high command will take a call on this.”

Now Pappu Yadav , the national president of the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) announced at a Press conference that his party will support the Congress in the October 30 by-elections. He said the Congress in Bihar is fighting the battle to save Bihar and the battle for farmers and labourers. “For this reason, to save Bihar, it has been decided to support the Congress party in the upcoming by-election,” he said. The discord in the grand alliance came to the fore recently when the Congress sought to field its candidate for the Kusheshwarsthan bypoll - it was given this seat as part of the seat-sharing pact for the 2020 assembly elections and lost. But the RJD went ahead to field its candidates from the two seats, Kusheshwarsthan and Tarapur. Upset, the Congress also fielded its candidates from both the seats. The Left parties, which are part of the grand alliance in Bihar, are supporting the RJD nominees from both, Kusheshwarstahn and Tarapur.

The RJD has reacted to Congress leader Bhakta Charan Das swipe.“Entire Bihar knows that we followed the coalition dharma and how Lalu Prasad sacrificed posts for alliance partners,” said RJD state president Jagdanand Singh. Party spokesperson Mirtunjay Tiwary blamed Congress leaders “for this state of affairs”. “The Congress leaders do not know the ground reality in Bihar. And it is because of leaders such as Das that the Congress has reached such a sorry state,” said Tiwary. The ruling BJP took a dig at the Congress and called it “a momentary threat”. “They are hurt. It is momentary but they have been humiliated by a regional party,” said BJP spokesperson Dhanjay Giri.