New Delhi: Bihar’s Opposition Mahagathbandhan will hold rallies at significant centres of the poll-bound state which will include numerous joint looks of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav.
While these rallies, Opposition sources stated, would be to sustain the optics of the ‘citizen adhikar yatra’ versus SIR and ‘vote chori’ concerns, these Opposition sorties are likewise created to expand the Opposition front’s pre-poll discourse by generating focus on socio-economic issues of crucial electoral stake-holders and providing the alliance’s action to them.
“The rallies we are planning will be jointly addressed by Rahulji and Tejashwiji. In many places, leaders of our other allies will also join them. Of course, ‘SIR’ and ‘vote-chori’ remain our major issues. The rallies will be theme-based, catering to important social sections; say, one rally will focus on the issues of youth of Bihar, the other will be on the concerns of women, another on the issue of forced migration due to unemployment in the state and similarly on issues including lack of industries, worsening law and order and the collapse of the education system in the state,” stated a leader associated with the preparation.
“In these rallies, our leaders will present facts and figures about how these problems of Bihar only got more complex during the nearly two decades of the Nitish Kumar-led BJP-JDU rule and about our (Opposition) plans to deal with these issues, including our upcoming promises on socio-economic guarantees,” the individual included. These strategies accompany the argument in political circles, consisting of in the Opposition, even throughout the ‘citizen adhikar yatra’ on whether SIR and ‘vote chori’ problems stay the prime pre-poll issue of the masses on the ground throughout Bihar, with some swearing by the electoral powerful of these 2 problems, and others arguing that the Opposition must focus more on support concerns by tapping the incumbency problems of the BJP-JDU state federal government– instead of winding up diverting the Opposition target completely on PM Modi and EC– while providing an alternate vision. This dispute even more magnified with the SIR drive consisting of the commonly readily available Aadhaar cards on the peak court’s instruction as a redressal step. This has actually made broad-basing the Opposition canvas a tactical requirement.
The rallies are likewise prepared to expand the Opposition’s ground existence as a reaction to Prime Minister Modi beginning his pre-poll sorties in Bihar– with the Centre support it up with the statement of lots of facilities and social jobs for Bihar– amidst clear signal from BJP-JDU alliance creating a ‘Modi centric’ project blitzkrieg while tapping Nitish Kumar’s interest the vital EBC sectors.
