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Jul

Warning signs from Maharashtra, Bihar and Delhi

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Amitabh Srivastava

This is not the first time the BJP has tried to play up one Pawar against another in Maharshtra. Nor will this be the last.

Three years ago Ajit Pawar had been presented before the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari as a

supporter of Eknath Shinde who had joined hands with a breakaway faction of Shiv Sena.

That he later went back swearing allegiance to the patriarch of the Nationalist Congress Party Sharad Pawar will be soon forgotten by an electorate that has lost faith in any ideology whatsoever.

The veteran of many a battle in his long career Sharad Pawar has learnt his lesson as has Udhav Thackerey who was once upon a time a close ally of the BJP.

In Bihar the CBI has started raiding the premises of Tejashwi Yadav and his aged parents Lalu and Rabri Devi for a so called job cum land scam during the tenure of Lalu Prasad Yadav. So called, because the CBI remains a caged parrot, only the Masters keep changing.

The politically sauvy Tejashwi is not shocked. He said he was waiting for this after the Patna meet of 15 Opposition parties on one platform.

The only person who is not willing to learn a lesson from history is Arvind Kejriwal though two his ministers are in jail. The way he tried arm twisting the Indian National Congress at Patna in full media spotlight does not augur well for 2024.

Either he has become too egoistic after victories in Delhi and Punjab or he is too clever, hoping to strike a bargain with the likes of Amit Shah by indirectly supporting the Uniform Civil Code and a Bhavya Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

Kejrjwal should have learnt a lesson from the way the Congress, the only pan India party at the Bihar conclave, accused of dynastic rule since ages, conducted itself in the last few months.

At the cost of annoying a lot of their hard core Nehru Gandhi supporters, the Gandhi family stood firm in its resolve not to contest the elections for the post of Congress President and allowed a healthy and open contest between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge.

Rahul Gandhi during the whole period kept himself totally immersed in his Bharat Jodo Yatra without taking sides in the contest.

The result is a very confident and grounded Mallikarjun Kharge whose stock among the living politicians of the country has gone sky high.

No other political party in India has held open elections in recent memory. Even a J P Nadda had been anointed without elections as BJP President. And they talk of internal democracy.

And Rahul Gandhi of course has become a cult figure in Indian politics taking even his disqualification as MP in his stride bravely.

If Kejriwal still imagines he can stitch a deal with the Modi Shah duo he should remember how the saffron party has treated its former allies like the BSP, the Akalis, Shiv Sena, Mehbooba Mufti or Anna Hazare whose anticorruption catapulted it to power in 2014.

He should ask Mamata Banerjee why she has openly accepted the leadership of the Congress after the results of the Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh elections.

It was amusing to watch the firebrand Mamata trying to play peacemaker between Kejriwal and Kharge by telling them to sort out their differences over tea biscuits.

Of course it will need more than that when the various Opposition parties finally sit down to discuss the common minimum program and seat sharing whenever elections are held.

But at least they should not have any delusions about their common enemy which is ruthless in its march towards Akhand Bharat.

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