Lagatar24 Desk
Patna, Feb 25: As Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the chief strategist for the BJP, travel throughout the state to campaign for their respective political fronts, Bihar will witness a significant display of strength between the Mahagathbandhan, the state’s ruling party, and the NDA, the opposition.
At Purnia in the eastern section of the state, Nitish Kumar will host a joint rally of the ‘Mahagathbandhan.’ In a demonstration of the ‘unified opposition’ that Nitish Kumar, in particular, believes can beat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the septuagenarian Chief Minister will be joined by his deputy Tejashwi Yadav and leaders of minor partners like the Congress and the Left.
Lalu Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav’s father and the president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), is also anticipated to participate by video. He recently returned to India following kidney transplant surgery in Singapore.
Amit Shah will speak at a public gathering more than 400 kilometres away in the Balmiki Nagar Lok Sabha district, a party bastion that was transferred to the chief minister’s JD(U) as part of seat-sharing agreements in 2019. Shah will fly to Patna to address a different gathering of farmers after speaking at a party conference there.
The home minister will also pay his respects at Takht Harmandir Patna Sahib, the famed Sikh temple located at the site of Guru Gobind Singh’s birth and formative years. This will be the home minister’s second trip to Bihar in more than four months.
“The BJP stands on the two pillars of organisational strength and ideological commitment and the Union Home Minister’s Bihar visit is a reaffirmation of the same. The Mahagathbandhan, on the other hand, has chosen the communally sensitive Seemanchal area to play its card of Muslim appeasement,” state BJP spokesman and OBC Morcha national general secretary Nikhil Anand said, according to PTI.
