Poster conflict in Patna a day forward of assembly of opposition events

The state of Bihar on Thursday witnessed a poster conflict a day earlier than 17 opposition events are scheduled to fulfill to debate the timeline and the roadmap for the approaching 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The controversy arose after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chapter in Delhi displayed a poster calling for unity among the many opposition whereas the chapter in Bihar referred to Nitish Kumar because the BJP’s ‘B team.’

The Mahagathbandhan administration, led by Nitish Kumar, is all set to host the opposition events in Patna for the Unity convention scheduled on Friday. Notably, that is the primary gathering of opposition events to ship a message of cooperation earlier than the overall elections of 2024.

Arvind Kejriwal was pictured on the poster, which was displayed all through Patna’s streets, as a possible candidate for prime minister within the 2024 elections. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s image was put up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him an alternate staff of BJP. “There is neither expectation, nor trust. The citizens of India should be alert. This is Nitish Kumar, a close aide of PM Modi,” the poster learn.

Following this, the BJP mocked the opposition by calling them “Thugs of India” in a brand new poster. The poster featured photos of opposition political leaders, together with MK Stalin, Tejashvi Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, Uddhav Thackeray, Mamata Banerjee, and Nitish Kumar. The poster had an inscription that mentioned, “The grand meeting of the parties engrossed in dynasty politics and corruption.”

Reportedly, the AAP has additionally declared that it could stroll out of Friday’s assembly of opposition leaders if the Congress doesn’t promise its assist towards the Centre’s ordinance on the management of administrative companies in Delhi.

Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, had expressed optimism that the Congress would make clear its place on the Center’s ordinance relating to the administration of administrative companies within the nationwide capital in the course of the non-BJP events’ assembly in Patna on Tuesday.

With all of the commotion surrounding the opposition assembly in Patna, former deputy chief minister Sushil Modi attacked Nitish Kumar and declared that they’d each fall on their faces since they have been collectively not for the great of the nation however for his or her egocentric pursuits.

“Three to four Opposition leaders want to become PM and no one cares about India. Nitish Kumar has failed in Bihar and he will fail again to unite the Opposition. Nothing will come out of this meeting as this is ‘Chai Bhoj’ and ‘Litti Chokha’ meet. Let them enjoy Bihar food. Some are deeply fallen in the pits of Parivarvaad and some in pits of corruption,” Sushil Modi was quoted as saying.

As per the studies, posters from the Samajwadi Party that characteristic the previous chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav name for resolving to “free India from the BJP to end unemployment, violence, and price rise.”

Posters for the state’s ruling coalition embody photos of MK Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee, his equal in West Bengal, and Sharad Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party.

The BJP in the meantime has displayed posters honouring socialist chief Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) on the celebration’s headquarters and vital places together with the Patna airport.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has individually distanced itself from a number of Nitish Kumar-targeting posters which have appeared in its title. Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, is depicted on one facet of the posters, and Modi and Nitish Kumar are depicted on the opposite, with the assertion “Beware!!! This is Nitish, Narendra Modi’s friend.”

The posters, in response to AAP spokeswoman Bablu Prakash, are an try and discredit the celebration and trigger confusion. Later, the Patna Municipal Corporation started taking down these posters.