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In Bihar,
30,000 aspirants for assembly polls
Monday, September 20, 2010 02:46:46 PM,
Imran Khan, IANS
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Patna:
Looks like over 30,000 people in Bihar want to fight an election!
They are all aspirants who have submitted their biodata to
political parties - mostly directly to party chiefs - to contest
the October-November elections to the 243-member legislative
assembly. The maximum number seems to be interested in the
Congress ticket!
Thousands of ticket aspirants have submitted their well-designed
colourful biodata and are eagerly awaiting the final lists of
candidates, party leaders told IANS, adding that they are seeing
such a rush for the first time.
"Till the last assembly polls in 2005, hardly a few hundred ticket
aspirants were there. This time, a record was made when thousands
of applications were submitted," state Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)
president Abdul Bari Siddiqui said.
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Ashok Kumar said: "I submitted a
biodata with other documents to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and
requested him to consider my application for the party ticket. I
am hopeful as it has everything for a potential candidate."
More than 4,000 aspirants submitted their particulars to the
ruling JD-U and 6,000 to its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP).
But the opposition Congress tops the list with nearly 10,000
aspirants, followed by 8,000 for the RJD and more than 3,000 for
its alliance partner Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
Other parties like the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist) also received particulars from ticket aspirants
in small numbers.
RJD leader Narender Yadav submitted his papers to party chief Lalu
Prasad and is sure to impress him for the ticket.
"My biodata has no match as I have been with the party since the
mid-1990s and committed to Lalu Prasad's politics of social
justice," he said.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former chief minister Lalu Prasad,
the main political rivals in Bihar, spent hours at their party
headquarters here for four-five days this week to collect biodata
from aspirants which they said would be the basis of selection of
candidates.
JD-U state president Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said his party was
trying hard to shortlist potential candidates in view of the large
number of aspirants. "Party leaders are busy scrutinising biodata,"
he said.
The party is expected to release the first list of candidates by
Sep 27 when nomination for the first phase of election will start.
BJP leaders also admitted that due to the large number of
aspirants, there is pressure on the party to scrutinise all
biodata before finalising the candidates. "It is no doubt a tough
task this time," BJP state president C.P. Thakur said.
The JD-U would contest 140 assembly seats and its ally BJP 103.
Currently, the JD-U has 81 sitting legislators and the BJP 54.
A JD-U leader said the party would select hardly a dozen new
candidates. The situation is similar in the BJP, a party leader
said.
Congress leader Prem Chand Mishra said a heavy rush of ticket
aspirants was a result of the party's decision to contest
elections on its own from all the seats.
He said it indicated that the Congress is moving ahead in Bihar,
thanks to general secretary Rahul Gandhi's keen interest to revive
the party in the state.
The RJD state president said, "It is not only a positive sign but
indicates that the RJD popularity is still intact." The RJD would
contest 168 seats and the LJP 75.
JD-U, BJP, Congress, RJD and LJP leaders said there are a large
number of young ticket aspirants.
"Youths gathered inside and outside the party offices for
submitting biodata," a shopkeeper outside the JD-U office said.
Other parties' offices on the busy Birchand Patel Marg here also
witnessed similar scenes.
(Imran Khan can
be contacted at imran.k@ians.in)
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