Winning all 40 LS seats, securing absolute majority in prime priorities: New Bihar BJP chief

By PTI

PATNA: The BJP’s new Bihar unit chief Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday asserted that securing all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state subsequent yr and making certain an “absolute majority” for his occasion within the meeting polls of 2025 might be his prime priorities.

Currently, the Leader of the Opposition within the state legislative council, Chaudhary, who was a minister within the Nitish Kumar authorities until the JD(U) chief remained with NDA, additionally didn’t deny that by hedging its bets on him, the BJP has sought to make a dent within the “Luv-Kush” base of the Bihar chief minister.

“The BJP cares for all. But, of course, where else would Luv Kush go except the place where Lord Rama abides”, Chaudhary replied, tongue in cheek, to questions from journalists in regards to the “Kurmi-Koeri” mix, identified by the title of the legendary twins in Bihar’s political lexicon.

The improvement is a sign of the challenges confronted by the BJP in a state the place it has turn out to be a drive to reckon with however feels hamstrung by the “pro-upper caste label”, given Bihar’s historical past of being the hotbed of Mandal politics.

A Koeri by caste, 54-year-old Chaudhary belongs to an influential political household in Bihar.

His father Shakuni Chaudhary has been an MLA a number of occasions and in addition served because the member of Khagaria Lok Sabha seat as soon as moreover being a founding member of the Samata Party, to which Nitish Kumar initially belonged.

Incidentally, Chaudhary had joined BJP barely six years in the past, beforehand having been related to each Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

His two phrases within the Bihar Assembly from Parbatta, in 2000 and 2010, have been on RJD tickets and he was additionally a minister within the Rabri Devi authorities from 2000 until she was voted out of energy.

His political profession started in 1999 with a controversial ministerial stint, when he was not a member of both home of the state legislature, and which got here to an abrupt finish with the then governor Suraj Bhan ordering his dismissal on the bottom of his being “under-age”.

In 2014, after Nitish Kumar stepped down because the chief minister taking ethical duty for the JD(U)’s debacle in Lok Sabha polls, Chaudhary stop the RJD and joined the Jitan Ram Manjhi ministry.

Chaudhary was then a part of a faction comprising 13 disgruntled RJD MLAs, lots of whom later claimed that they didn’t intend to stop the occasion and their signatures have been “fraudulently” obtained on a clean piece of paper to muster the numbers required for a cut up.

By 2017, he grew disillusioned with the JD(U) and joined the BJP, which ended up realigning with Nitish Kumar shortly afterwards.

Chaudhary succeeds Sanjay Jaiswal, who, by the way, had equally began off his profession with the RJD.

Rabri Devi, who like Chaudhary is a member of the legislative council, provided her good needs to her former cabinet colleague, however not with out including that for the BJP baniya se man bhar gaya hai to Mahto ko bana diya’ (having been carried out with a Vaishya, the BJP is now betting on an OBC).

PATNA: The BJP’s new Bihar unit chief Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday asserted that securing all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state subsequent yr and making certain an “absolute majority” for his occasion within the meeting polls of 2025 might be his prime priorities.

Currently, the Leader of the Opposition within the state legislative council, Chaudhary, who was a minister within the Nitish Kumar authorities until the JD(U) chief remained with NDA, additionally didn’t deny that by hedging its bets on him, the BJP has sought to make a dent within the “Luv-Kush” base of the Bihar chief minister.

“The BJP cares for all. But, of course, where else would Luv Kush go except the place where Lord Rama abides”, Chaudhary replied, tongue in cheek, to questions from journalists in regards to the “Kurmi-Koeri” mix, identified by the title of the legendary twins in Bihar’s political lexicon.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

The improvement is a sign of the challenges confronted by the BJP in a state the place it has turn out to be a drive to reckon with however feels hamstrung by the “pro-upper caste label”, given Bihar’s historical past of being the hotbed of Mandal politics.

A Koeri by caste, 54-year-old Chaudhary belongs to an influential political household in Bihar.

His father Shakuni Chaudhary has been an MLA a number of occasions and in addition served because the member of Khagaria Lok Sabha seat as soon as moreover being a founding member of the Samata Party, to which Nitish Kumar initially belonged.

Incidentally, Chaudhary had joined BJP barely six years in the past, beforehand having been related to each Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

His two phrases within the Bihar Assembly from Parbatta, in 2000 and 2010, have been on RJD tickets and he was additionally a minister within the Rabri Devi authorities from 2000 until she was voted out of energy.

His political profession started in 1999 with a controversial ministerial stint, when he was not a member of both home of the state legislature, and which got here to an abrupt finish with the then governor Suraj Bhan ordering his dismissal on the bottom of his being “under-age”.

In 2014, after Nitish Kumar stepped down because the chief minister taking ethical duty for the JD(U)’s debacle in Lok Sabha polls, Chaudhary stop the RJD and joined the Jitan Ram Manjhi ministry.

Chaudhary was then a part of a faction comprising 13 disgruntled RJD MLAs, lots of whom later claimed that they didn’t intend to stop the occasion and their signatures have been “fraudulently” obtained on a clean piece of paper to muster the numbers required for a cut up.

By 2017, he grew disillusioned with the JD(U) and joined the BJP, which ended up realigning with Nitish Kumar shortly afterwards.

Chaudhary succeeds Sanjay Jaiswal, who, by the way, had equally began off his profession with the RJD.

Rabri Devi, who like Chaudhary is a member of the legislative council, provided her good needs to her former cabinet colleague, however not with out including that for the BJP baniya se man bhar gaya hai to Mahto ko bana diya’ (having been carried out with a Vaishya, the BJP is now betting on an OBC).