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With its state unit calling the seat-sharing as “unacceptable and an insult”, the party finds itself in a cleft stick. It either accepts the arrangement and face internal rebellion or goes against it by putting the UPA at risk.
The party was given the three seats — Madhubani, Aurangabad and Sasaram — “almost arbitrarily” without a discussion. All these are Congress’ sitting seats.
A sulking Bihar Pradesh Congress president Anil Sharma said the formula was not acceptable and added that he was awaiting a final word from the high command to decide the party’s next move in the state. Sources said the Congress was preparing to contest 20 seats. “We cannot accept three seats. After all, seats do not belong to individual parties,” Sharma said.
Senior party leader Premchand Mishra conceded that the Congress allowed itself to be taken for a ride. “If the Congress wants to exist in Bihar, it must contest all 40 seats,” he Mishra.
Political analysts and senior Congressmen, however, are not surprised at the party’s decline in Bihar. With the emergence of regional parties and caste-based agenda, the Congress has been on the margins of Bihar politics since 1989.
After the best-ever performance in the state in 1984, when it won 48 seats out of the 54, it could win just 4 in the next parliamentary elections. And the final “nail in the coffin” was driven by the 1989 Bhagalpur riots which set most of the 16 per cent Muslims — its traditional votebank— against the party.
“The Congress was increasingly becoming party of the upper castes since the late 1970s, displeasing intermediary and backward castes. The Congress had mostly upper caste CMs in Bihar. V P Singh’s Jan Morcha and Bhagalpur riots provided the last nail in the Congress’ coffin in Bihar,” political analyst
and author Srikant told The Indian Express.
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Congress in itself is a washout, not much to wait to see it though. They have screwed up all along.
Whether congress accepts it or not, does not matter.Lalu Yadav on whom congress depended so much has ditched for his own sake.It should be known to the Congress party that he is not a reliable and trustworthy person.
The Congress party should not accept this. After all, people like Paswan has got the courage to talk this way due to the courtesy of the Congress party which continued its reservation policy even after 63 years of independence. For a small mistake of Jayaprakash Narayan, people like Lalu were made leaders, but now they have become leaders of most terrific goonds. Even in the 3 seats these people will play tricks and defeat Congress. Congress should either contest all the 40 seats or else join hands with some other local parties, make secret understandings and spoil the foul play of Lalu and Paswan. They should not lift their head again.
In a similar fashion congress will be washed out from the national political scene in a few elections. That will be good for India.
congress pays the price for allowing messers jagannath mishra and bhagwat ja azad to be CMs.These arrogant and corrupt had a free run looting and dividing BIHAR for years together.The leadership never felt the need to reign them.This persistent exploitation of the poor and socially backwards resulted in LALOOs and NITISH kumars to become leaders to provide these hapless souls some hope,LALOO did nothing in bihar for 10 years and felt that by keeping his folks poor and illeterate he can rule to eternity.Alas nitish came as a ray of hope and has done his bit in bringing the state out off morass.The congress leadership which has inherited the deadly disease in bihar will never be able to get rid off it although RAJIV and Indira should have acted sternly.Just forget it SONIA congress is finished in BIHAR.
All "Right minded Politicians" have to raise over petty personal motives to find 'Inovative' ways to form a new governament, the way these elections are fought.All others shall be booted out in very near future ,by the youth if this great Nation.
Congress is anti-Bihar. Looked at what it did to Biharis in Maharashtra. Congress has ruined Bihar over the years. We need leaders like Nitish Kumar. Even BJP is no different. Strong regional parties in a decentralized system appears to be a better solution for India.
Biggest fools of this washout would be the people of Bihar. Without a national party to support regional parties, the necessary manpower and capital needed to develop the state will be less. People of Bihar Beware! the RJD and LJP are out to count you out of the national mainstream.
Fools in metros think that India is Delhi and Mumbai. The truth is mainstream is India and not Delhi.Delhi is just an administrative center of the republic of India. This symbolic stereotype of projecting Delhi as the hot seat or Raj Sinhasan should stop. Delhi is not even located at the centroid of India. Decentralization should be implemented. For Biharis Patna should be the center or to go further… for citizens of Nalanda, Bihar ( or Biharsharif) should be the center.
Congress has not yet realised what lallu
Beggars have little choices. Both the Notional parties namely the Congress and BJP are beggars in majority of States. First we had Naveen chucking out BJP from Orissa giving no room for reproachment even when the BJP wished so and was prepared to climb down its expectations and now we have Lalu/Paswan combine doing a Naveen act on the Congress offering it very little scope but to engage in friendly fights. What we are likely on the "D" day is both the Notional parties together falling short of the magic figure and therein the game will start amongst the Regional parties to share the spoils of power.
When staunch supporter of UPA are started leaving the alliance, rest will do VOTERS in coming Election. UPA will not come back to power.
Ki farak padenga? Congress or Lalluji or Any one else, whoever come to power in Bihar, Bihar will remain Bihar - just as we know. Let Nitishji do his job peacefully. Good people are hard to get. It's Nitishji we are talking and not BJP. Like Atalji this man doesn't seems belong to BJP ( or any party for that matter)
The dilemma being faced by the two national parties of fickle allies will most likely result in a situation where the combined strength will be less than 272 for the first time.And in such a situation an agglomeration of diverse parties vying for the top post is a recipe for disaster.The Third Fraud or Front is the last thing this country needs.Hence it is incumbent on the two national parties to make the seemingly impossible,possible.They need to mutually agree on some formula of collaborating in forming a Govt for the sake of the nation
So guess how many seat Congress will win in the election 2009 from UP,Bihar,maharashtra