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Bihar
Elections: Political war gets personal
Sunday, October 10, 2010 02:15:51 PM,
IANS
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Patna:
The knives are out. As the Bihar elections approach, Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar and former chief minister and Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad are launching fierce attacks on
each other at every poll rally.
With barely 10 days to go for the first of the six-phased assembly
polls, the attacks are also getting personal in nature.
Lalu Prasad, who is the chief ministerial candidate of the RJD,
and alliance partner Lok Janshakti Party of Ram Vilas Paswan, does
not let go any chance to target Nitish Kumar on the plank of
development and law and order. On the other hand, Nitish Kumar
never fails to remind the electorate about the 'jungle raj' (mis-rule)
during Lalu Prasad's reign.
On the first day of his poll campaign Friday, the chief minister
attacked Lalu Prasad for trying to divert the people's attention
from development as the main poll plank to "fool people". "Bihar
is already on the development path and will be a developed state
by 2015 if voted to power," he said.
The RJD chief reminded people that real development work was done
in Bihar during his tenure as railway minister.
At one meet, the chief minister taunted Lalu Prasad for singing a
Hindi film song, that goes: "Mere pairon mein ghungru bandhale to
phir meri chal dekh le" (Tie the bells around my feet and watch me
dance).
"We are stunned to know that Lalu Prasad is seeking ghungrus for
power. How could a responsible politician seek people's blessing
for tying ghungrus instead of taking up welfare measures and
development," Nitish Kumar has been saying in public meetings in
Kosi and Seemanchal region.
In his rebuff, Lalu Prasad said that Nitish Kumar is an engineer
but is trying to behave like a doctor. "Nitish is a degree holder
in engineering but trying to treat people like a doctor, which is
bound to have reactions. Entire Bihar is a victim of this
reaction."
He was reacting to Nitish Kumar's exhortation to people that when
the medicine suits a patient, the patient does not change the
doctor.
Nitish Kumar also said that Lalu Prasad was not to be trusted as
he had failed to deliver during his 15-year regime in Bihar. He
was reacting to the RJD chief's campaign promise that he would
give motorcycles and petrol to students if voted to power.
In return, Lalu Prasad has been repeatedly telling people that
Nitish Kumar has cheated them as his claim of development is
false. "There is no electricity, people are living in darkness and
the poorest of the poor are left in the lurch. Corruption is
rampant and crime is growing," he said.
"This time it is a fight to the finish. Give me power once again.
You wont be cheated this time. Help me to dethrone the NDA
(National Democratic Alliance)," the RJD chief has been exhorting
people at public meetings in Kosi belt.
In his bid to woo Muslims, his strong support base in past, Lalu
Prasad has attacked Nitish Kumar for "cheating" Muslims. In
Seemanchal region, comprising Purnia, Kishanganj, Araria and
Katihar districts with Muslim population that would decide the
outcome of polls, Lalu Prasad said the hue and cry raised by
Nitish Kumar over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's
campaigning in Bihar was a "big drama".
"Nitish is sitting on the lap of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak
Sangh) and running the government with the BJP (Bharatiya Janata
Party), but is trying to pose as Muslim friendly and a secular
leader. But Muslims have realised his real face," he said.
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