The Bihar Saga... The quest of power can brings together the all time rivals Lalu and Nitish in Bihar...

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The story of Bihar began with Nitish Kumar's ambitions of being the Prime Minister wannabe, which he has laughed off more often than not. Nitish Kumar came out in the open when the voices to name Narendra Modi (Current PM) as the prime ministerial candidate started gaining momentum, what unfolded next was a slew of attacks on Mr. Modi and his brand of politics. Nitish Kumar always considered Bihar as his strong hold, just like Mayawati thought about Uttar Pradesh. But the story of what happened in the elections is out there for everyone to see and believe and the biggest beneficiary in the process came out to be Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan.

But this article is not about what happened and why it happened, but about what does Bihar have in store next, the political scenario of Bihar has undergone a tremendous change, once storng Janta Dal (United) headed by Mr. Nitish Kumar, was seen lost in the Modi wave that had engulfed the nation. Something changed all of a sudden and Mr. Kumar realised that he is at the verge of losing his strong hold if corrective measures are not taken. A lot of drama followed regarding him resigning etc.

But now it seems Mr. Kumar, seems to have found solace in the lap of his elder brother Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav, this is the same person against whom Mr. Kumar united with BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party) with the agenda of ending the Jungle Raj, that was prevalent under Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav's rule. But when hit hard by reality both of them have realised that if they want to survive the onslaught of BJP, they have to come upfront and stop cutting into each-others vote bank. The Congress has also decided to stick to both of them as they do not have a strong face in Bihar anyhow. The real strength of the alliance between JDU and RJD, is going to be put to test soon in the by-elections, to held for the 10 seats in the state on the 21st of August.

The shift from bitter rivalry to the sweet friendship, the overall theme of the alliance seems to be one dimensional, that of defending their ground against the BJP. Mr. Kumar and Mr. Yadav also have doled out the same advice to Ku. Mayawati and Shri Mulayam Singh, to unite against BJP in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The overall scenario seems to be one where the third front seems to be aligning with the Congress party in order to fight against the BJP bandwagon across the country, whereby all the non NDA parties seem to be clubbing together, in a hope to form a formidable face against the BJP led NDA.

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The unmanageable Uttar Pradesh...!!! Fact or Fiction

A lot has been said about conditions in Uttar Pradesh, I have not been to ground zero but based on media reports I have come to believe the conditions are not very good. How can they be, when the leader of the ruling party makes statements like, "Galtiyan toh Ladke hi karte hai" ("Mistakes are committed by boys only"); on being questioned about rising cases of rapes in the state.

The CM makes a statement that one needs to google (search the internet), to find out that Uttar Pradesh is not the only state where there is a serious problem of atrocities against women; does incidents in other states give right to the UP government to turn a blind eye towards such incidents. It surely seems that, UP ministers do not want to take action, as one of the senior leaders went on record saying that, " Cases of rape are natural in a big state like UP."; One of the senior SP leaders went on to say that when a relationship between a biy and girl comes out in open it is being termed as rape...!!!

What do these people think, that if you have a big state you should stop taking action, is the system so paralysed that it does not feel the pain of the victims. It does seem that it is immune to criticism, the CM ordered use of water cannons on the female wing of the Bhrtiya Janta Party, which was marching towards the CM house a few days back in Lucknow

The cases are aplenty, but the stir has started after the rape and subsequent murder of two minor girls aged 14 and 15 in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. The were abducted and gangraped, later their bodies were found hanging on a tree, the incident took place on the 27th of May, 2014.

The case is not an isolated incidence, there have been several cases in the past as well, the case was followed by an incident of attempted rape of a civil court judge, in the highly secure judges colony. Even Amethi the strong hold of INC, and constituency of Mr. Rahul Gandhi, is not safe and a case of minor rape has been reported recently.

Courtsey: Satish

On being questioned by the media about the occurrences of such cases, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said, "You do your Job, I will do mine"; I would like to ask Mr. Singh, if you had been doing your job properly the questions would never have been raised.

What is the government doing in UP, they want to make the state a high tech state by distribution of laptops and other such flimsy things. The overall situation in the state seems to be out of hand of the ruling party, but as they have seen the results of the national elections, the overall scenario for Samajvadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are not all that great and thus they would not want a re-election soon.

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Cartoon Mulayam Hard on People who did not vote for him...

A friend of mine updated that in Jhansi power went off, as soon as it was announced that BJP has won the seat, it seems that all of Uttar Pradesh is now suffering in the same manner for givving Maximum seats to BJP.

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