Outgoing Congress Legislative Celebration (CLP) chief Shakeel Ahmad Khan of Bihar Meeting was among the many many Mahagathbandhan candidates who misplaced within the Bihar Meeting polls. Within the interview, he displays, amongst different issues, on the poor efficiency of the Congress-opposition coalition and Nitish Kumar’s ‘Dashazari’ scheme, as a part of which eligible girls got Rs 10,000. excerpt:
Authorities company of Jeevika employees. There was no motive for them to be in or across the polling place. In my constituency (Kadwa), I noticed Jeevika Didis exhibiting a message to voters queuing up that 10,000 rupees could be credited to their accounts. The Election Fee (EC) ought to have taken precautions as campaigning close to polling stations is prohibited. I complained about it. In some locations they had been requested to depart, however in some others they continued. The NDA received votes in lots of cubicles that they by no means received. I have never regarded into the matter intimately.
Additionally, (AIMIM chief) Asaduddin Owaisi’s feedback that incited Islamic communalism had been additionally an element. He spoke like a communist. His speech gave Hindu communists a possibility to deal with Hindu sentiments.
We’ve got to battle towards Hindutva in addition to towards AIMIM. AIMIM calls out the Muslim neighborhood in a manner that ridicules the Hindu neighborhood.
Is your argument on Jeevika Didi that straightforward?Are you ignoring the larger points plaguing the Opposition? Do not we want a extra complete evaluation?
A complete evaluation must be finished, however how can we appeal to voters throughout an election? It has distorted the extent enjoying area.
Folks in Bihar, already burdened with debt because of the personal microloan system, thought they may use Rs 10,000 crore to repay their loans. Folks obtained the primary installment throughout Chas. It undoubtedly influenced them.
Did not the NDA have a greater and broader caste combine in comparison with the Opposition?
We’ve got additionally adjusted the caste combine and nominated EBC, OBC, Dalit, Sahani, Yadav and Muslim. That is not an element. The free hand that the administration and the EC have given (to the NDA) is the actual issue. EC was not truthful.
Had been there any issues with credibility? Tejashwi Yadav and the RJD and by extension the opposition alliance couldn’t shake off the burden of ‘Jungle Raj’…
This can be a matter from 20 years in the past. You possibly can’t repeat that and reap the dividends each election. I do not suppose that was an issue. What concerning the misrule of the JD(U) authorities? There have been gunfights and legislation and order issues.
Immigration has been a problem for the previous twenty years. The folks of Bihar, particularly the youth, had been discussing all this.
You should have seen folks gathered for Mahagathbandhan gatherings. Was {that a} joke? Why it didn’t result in votes is an enormous query that requires evaluation.
There’s a sense that the problems raised by Congress, comparable to SIR and voting rights, didn’t resonate with the folks on the bottom…
Voting choli is a reality and lots of examples could be given. At my polling station, there have been many individuals whose names weren’t on the voter listing regardless that they’d ID playing cards. What might we have now finished on the final minute?
If voting had been carried out on a big scale, there would have been protests. A political get together like yours would have mobilized the folks…
Election ke time skilled thodi na hota hai (There can be no protests throughout election interval). We had been all busy campaigning.
Some leaders say there was an absence of coordination between the RJD and Congress…
After I began six months in the past, I had no issues. In direction of the top, issues arose over sharing seats. We adopted by with our request, however the issue was restricted to these seats. There’s nothing like a pleasant battle. I can settle for that pleasant preventing has broken the alliance in these seats. Nevertheless, it could not have affected different seats.
Was the bigger message being despatched that the Mahagathbandhan can’t even finalize seat-sharing?
No, there was additionally an issue between JD(U) and LJP(RV), but it surely has been resolved. We had been additionally in a position to resolve a lot of the points, apart from just a few seats. Bigger messages weren’t corrupted.
Election management, EC help and Rs 10,000 crore bribe had been elements that tipped the scales in favor of the NDA.
