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Bihar: Prashant Kishor Predicts JDU Merger In RJD Post 2024 Elections, Calls Tejashwi Yadav Product Of Nepotism
Nishtha Anushree
Nov 22, 2023, 06:23 PM | Updated 06:31 PM IST
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During Jan Suraj padayatra in Madhubani's Chunauraganj, Prashant Kishor, making a new prediction claimed that in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, JDU will not even get five seats in Bihar. He also said that there would be a merger of JDU in RJD after the 2024 elections.
According to Jagran, he said, "I had predicted that BJP would not get 100 seats in the West Bengal elections, and now I am predicting the dissolution of JDU, which is bound to come true."
Addressing the question of expanding the scope of reservation, he said that when there was a provision of 50 per cent reservation, the right people did not benefit from it.
He claimed that the state's politics revolves around about 1,250 families and most MPs, MLAs, and ministers come from these 1,250 political families.
He asserted that for 35 years, the successive governments led by Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar did not give Dalits, Mahadalits, OBCs their due rights.
He said that 60 per cent of the state budget is managed by the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister and asked to distribute the responsibilities of these departments among ministers from different castes.
Taunting nepotism he said that Tejashwi Yadav is the Deputy CM because he is Lalu Prasad Yadav's son. He also called BJP State President Samrat Choudhary a product of nepotism.
Predicting on INDI Alliance, he said that its impact is zero in the country and that Nitish Kumar is playing the last innings of his politics. He said that making Bagaha and Jhanjharpur districts is appropriate from an administrative point of view.
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Nishtha Anushree is Senior Sub-editor at Swarajya. She tweets at @nishthaanushree.
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