After being pink-slipped along with Lalu Yadav, the Congress branch in Bihar is awash in resentment – not just towards Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who laid off his allies on Wednesday night, but also for party boss Rahul Gandhi, who was assigned to keep the government in Bihar from sinking.
Mr Gandhi, 47, did not deliver. And along with the result, his party’s legislators in Bihar are reportedly giving him an F for Effort. Sources who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation said that Mr Gandhi displayed an arrogance and disregard for the counsel of his leaders from Bihar – a charge levelled against him in the past in states like Assam where the Congress lost its governments. In this case, said sources, the Congress’ senior-most leader in Bihar, Ashok Choudhary, was kept waiting for three days before Mr Gandhi made the time to see him in Delhi earlier this week.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Choudhary said, “Our flock remains together”. Of the now-defunct government in which he was Education Minister, he said, “Nitish should not have left us.”
Till Wednesday evening, the Bihar government had three constituents – Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United or JDU, Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD, and the Congress. Now, it is the BJP with whom Mr Kumar plans to run Bihar.
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