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NEW DELHI: It's yatra play successful Bihar, arsenic the authorities gears up for the upcoming assembly elections. After the Mahagathbabdhan's "Voter Adhikar Yatra" which was led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav's ongoing "Bihar Adhikar Yatra", it is present Asaduddin Owaisi, the main of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), who is starring his party's 'Seemanchal Nyay Yatra'.
While each the 3 yatras purpose to mobilise voters against the Nitish Kumar-led NDA authorities successful the state, determination is simply a governmental subtext which points to the combat wrong successful the absorption space. While Tejashwi's ongoing yatra is possibly an effort to found his dominance wrong the Mahagathbandhan and antagonistic the communicative that helium played 2nd fiddle to Rahul Gandhi during the Voter Adhikar Yatra, Owaisi's yatra successful the Seemanchal portion whitethorn really extremity up dividing the absorption abstraction - similar it did 5 years back.The Seeemanchal region, comprising 4 districts of Purnia, Araria, Kishnaganj and Katihar, has a precocious attraction of Muslims.Why Owaisi is keen to articulation the MahagathbandhanIn the 2020 Bihar assembly elections, AIMIM fought connected 20 seats and won 5 of them -- Amour, Kochadaman, Baisi, Jokihat, and Bahadurganj. However, 4 of the AIMIM MLAs yet joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) successful 2022.The NDA had past returned to powerfulness by winning 125 seats arsenic against the Mahagathbandhan’s 110.
The AIMIM was past blamed for the Mahagathbandhan's nonaccomplishment to get a majority, by cutting into Muslim votes, particularly successful the Seemanchal region, which has a sizeable colonisation of the number community. The RJD and the Congress had past blamed Owaisi for being the B squad of the BJP and helping the saffron party.This clip around, Owaisi seems to person changed his strategy and has made respective nationalist pronouncements astir his tendency to articulation the Mahagathbandhan.
The AIMIM has not lone written letters to RJD bosses- Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi seeking an alliance, but the party, possibly successful a first, besides held a objection with drums extracurricular the residence of erstwhile CM Rabri Devi demanding its inclusion successful the absorption INDIA bloc to “prevent a divided of secular votes”.
The AIMIM has said that it wants to contention lone connected 6 seats arsenic portion of the Mahagathbandhan."We made the determination truthful that we bash not look accusations of helping the BJP.
A deficiency of due effect connected RJD's portion volition marque it wide who is really helping the BJP," Owaisi said reacting to the deficiency of effect from RJD to his confederation offer."Our Bihar president Akhtarul Iman wrote 3 letters to Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav expressing our privation to articulation the INDIA bloc. We had demanded lone six seats. We are not funny successful immoderate ministerial berth. We lone wanted to beryllium treated arsenic equals and not arsenic slaves successful the associated combat against BJP and RSS.
But, truthful far, nary effect has travel from them," the Hyderabad MP added.“My entreaty to you is to fortify your governmental leadership. We volition not spell to outsiders’ doors to beg… I and Akhtarul Iman, wrote letters to Lalu Prasad Yadav. After that, Tejashwi Yadav said that helium had not received it. My brother, erstwhile the begetter is live successful a household, and a substance is presented successful beforehand of elders, the younger ones bash not person the close to say: ‘You told the elder, but not me’,” Owaisi said portion addressing a rally successful Kishanganj.Why RJD whitethorn not beryllium funny successful Owaisi allianceThe RJD, which is going each retired to wrest powerfulness from Nitish Kumar this clip around, should person ideally latched connected to the AIMIM connection to guarantee determination was nary part of Muslim votes successful the assembly elections. However, the enactment is yet to respond to Owaisi's overtures.For the RJD, Owaisi's confederation connection presents a hard situation.The RJD, implicit the years, has drawn its halfway enactment from the Yadavs and Muslims. Accepting Owaisi arsenic an confederation partner, RJD would person to concede portion of that abstraction to Owaisi, a determination that whitethorn not beryllium politically prudent for either Lalu oregon Tejashwi Yadav.Traditionally, Yadavs and Muslims person formed the halfway elector basal of Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata DalSecondly and possibly much importantly, if Owaisi joins the Mahagathbandhan, it volition springiness the BJP and NDA a beardown crushed to property with its complaint of appeasement politics. Already, the Mahagathbandhan's run against ballot theft and Rahul Gandhi's yatra has been lebelled by the BJP arsenic an effort to prevention the alleged infiltrators, who are mostly Muslims from Bangladesh.The complaint has been led by nary different than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, successful an predetermination rally earlier this period accused absorption parties of shielding amerciable immigrants and asserted that infiltration had caused a “demographic crisis” successful eastbound states similar Bihar, Assam and West Bengal, making radical “worried for the honour of their sisters and daughters”.“This was the crushed wherefore I had announced a demography ngo from the Red Fort (on Independence Day).
But specified is ballot slope authorities that Congress, RJD and their full ecosystem are engaged defending and shielding the overseas infiltrators,” PM Modi had alleged.“They person go truthful shameless that they are raising slogans and taking retired yatras successful enactment of infiltrators from overseas countries,” helium had said, successful an evident notation to the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra' of the Congress.“But fto maine archer RJD, Congress and their ilk that the NDA is committed to driving retired each and each infiltrator.
I situation leaders who are trying to support infiltrators to effort with each their might. We volition proceed to flush retired infiltrators,” the PM had asserted.Clearly, if the Mahagathbandhan takes Owaisi's enactment into its fold, this BJP run volition go a batch much shriller successful the tally up to elections and whitethorn really extremity up polarising the voters. Little wonder, the RJD whitethorn possibly hazard immoderate part of votes alternatively than spell connected the antiaircraft nether the complaint of helping infiltrators (read minorities).
