The cloud of suspicion in the NDA on the LJP question in Bihar was cut off on Tuesday. In the joint press conference of JDU and BJP, BJP made it very clear that the leader who does not consider Nitish Kumar will not be a part of Bihar NDA. It also clarified that LJP will not be able to use the name nor photo of PM Narendra Modi.
This will remove the dilemma of the voters of both parties, including their supporting voters. But there are many more fronts where BJP and JDU will have to fight. The LJP is also working on a strategy to make tickets for the candidates of both parties by contacting them. BJP and JDU have also made arrangements to compensate for loss of votes due to LJP’s exit from NDA.
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The JDU has added the VIP to the BJP. Both these parties were part of the grand alliance till yesterday. If we have the support base among the Dalits, then the VIPs are in a backward section of the society. We got 2.27 percent votes in the 2015 election. VIP is contesting assembly elections for the first time. The LJP’s proclamation of contesting the lone election in Bihar with its attack on the JDU and cheering of the BJP had created confusion in the NDA.
There has been speculation that the BJP is behind the rebellious attitude of LJP. LJP President Chirag Paswan continued to praise the PM, while targeting Nitish Kumar. Chirag also announced that he would not field a candidate against the BJP. Arithmetic was part of this strategy to contest 143 seats. This speculation was also strengthened for a short time due to no immediate statement from the BJP. But Tuesday’s JDU-BJP shared press conference put an end to such speculations. The first three parties were in the NDA.
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JDU, BJP and LJP. LJP has a limited special vote bank, which also has the ability to transfer. We and VIP two teams have joined NDA instead. The VIP party has a hold on a particular section of the backward society. At the same time, we have a mass base among the Mahadalits. The coming of these two parties to the NDA will not only compensate for the exit of the LJP, but can also benefit the NDA more than that. However, in Bihar, the JD (U) and BJP alliance have been getting majority on their own.
It has been decided on the basis of the information that was already coming about the seat sharing formula between the NDA constituents. JDU has got 122 seats, out of which it has given seven seats to the Ham Party. Similarly, BJP will give VIP seats to 121 seats of its quota.
In the 2015 elections, the LJP is working on a strategy of contesting the seats on which the BJP candidates had lost against JDU. A big name among such leaders is BJP’s Vice President Rajendra Singh, who has joined the LJP. BJP candidates, including outgoing BJP MLA Rameshwar Chaurasia, lost the JDU in the last election to contest elections on the LJP ticket. In such a situation, the question is also how the BJP will be able to prevent such leaders of its party from joining the LJP. Such leaders would also like to use BJP workers close to them in the election.
The NDA will have to strategize to prevent LJP from breaching its vote bank. However, LJP has its own organizational scope in Bihar. Its request to field candidates for 143 seats can be fulfilled by the rebels of BJP, JDU and RJD. The earlier experience has been that apart from the elections held in February 2005, the graph of LJP continued to fall in the assembly elections.
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