Monday, November 19, 2012

BIHAR POLITICS: INFIGHTING

Coordination body to calm down rebels seeking Modi's head
 
A section of the party had been targeting Modi after two senior ministers from the BJP were dropped from the Nitish Kumar Cabinet and the portfolios of two more were changed.

BJP in-charge Kalraj Mishra, who led the talks with party MLAs in Patna, Modi and Radha Mohan Singh are camping in New Delhi. Senior MLA Nityanand Rai has been gunning for Modi, blaming him for the “rot”. But senior leaders say personal vendettas will not be allowed to rock the boat, and nothing can be solved by replacing one leader with another. The counter fire is equally strong. Thunders Rai, a powerful backward leader from Haijpur: “He has been acting like a dictator and humiliating senior party leaders. We are merely slaves, expected to be at his beck and call.” All this has left the BJP’s central leadership in a bind. Their Catch-22: With general polls just a year away giving in to dissidents’ would give all the wrong signals. Not heeding the powerful backward rebels will mean constant friction and deviation from the main task in hand: winning the next polls.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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