Source – indiatoday.in
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad is in jail completing his sentence in the Fodder Scam, but that doesn’t prevent him from remaining active in Bihar’s politics.
It’s a new year and a significant one for Bihar as it heads for assembly elections that are likely to be held by the end of 2020.
Gearing up his party for the assembly polls, Lalu Yadav has coined a new slogan for his supporters: “Do hazaar bees, hatao Nitish (Remove Nitish in 2020).”
Lalu Yadav said this in a tweet from his personal Twitter handle which is being operated by his office in consultation with him and his family members.
Lalu Yadav’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) are the two main political forces in Bihar.
In 2015, to stop the BJP’s victory march, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav joined hands, formed the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and won the election with RJD emerging as the single-largest party and Nitish Kumar becoming the chief minister.
However, by 2017, differences between the two parties soured to the extent that Nitish Kumar ditched RJD and joined hands with the BJP to form a new government.
Meanwhile, as Bihar gears up for assembly elections, the RJD and JD(U) have also started a poster war in state capital Patna to slam each other.
In its posters, the JD(U) praises the 15-year rule of Nitish Kumar as Bihar’s chief minister as an era of progress and development. While the RJD has equated this tenure as one marred with corruption and ‘jungle raj’.