By way of PTI
PATNA: The BJP’s new Bihar unit leader Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday asserted that securing all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state subsequent yr and making sure an “absolute majority” for his birthday party within the meeting polls of 2025 will probably be his best priorities.
Recently, the Chief of the Opposition within the state legislative council, Chaudhary, who used to be a minister within the Nitish Kumar executive until the JD(U) chief remained with NDA, additionally didn’t deny that through hedging its bets on him, the BJP has sought to make a dent within the “Luv-Kush” base of the Bihar leader minister.
“The BJP cares for all. However, in fact, the place else would Luv Kush move except for where the place Lord Rama abides”, Chaudhary answered, tongue in cheek, to questions from reporters concerning the “Kurmi-Koeri” mix, recognized through the title of the legendary twins in Bihar’s political lexicon.
The advance is a sign of the demanding situations confronted through the BJP in a state the place it has develop into a pressure to reckon with however feels hamstrung through the “pro-upper caste label”, given Bihar’s historical past of being the hotbed of Mandal politics.
A Koeri through caste, 54-year-old Chaudhary belongs to an influential political circle of relatives in Bihar.
His father Shakuni Chaudhary has been an MLA a number of instances and likewise served because the member of Khagaria Lok Sabha seat as soon as but even so being a founding member of the Samata Birthday celebration, to which Nitish Kumar at the start belonged.
By the way, Chaudhary had joined BJP slightly six years in the past, up to now having been related to each Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).
His two phrases within the Bihar Meeting from Parbatta, in 2000 and 2010, had been on RJD tickets and he used to be additionally a minister within the Rabri Devi executive from 2000 until she used to be voted out of energy.
His political profession started in 1999 with a arguable ministerial stint, when he used to be now not a member of both space of the state legislature, and which got here to an abrupt finish with the then governor Suraj Bhan ordering his dismissal at the floor of his being “under-age”.
In 2014, after Nitish Kumar stepped down as the executive minister taking ethical duty for the JD(U)’s debacle in Lok Sabha polls, Chaudhary surrender the RJD and joined the Jitan Ram Manjhi ministry.
Chaudhary used to be then a part of a faction comprising 13 disgruntled RJD MLAs, lots of whom later claimed that they didn’t intend to surrender the birthday party and their signatures had been “fraudulently” bought on a clean piece of paper to muster the numbers required for a cut up.
By way of 2017, he grew disenchanted with the JD(U) and joined the BJP, which ended up realigning with Nitish Kumar in a while afterwards.
Chaudhary succeeds Sanjay Jaiswal, who, by the way, had in a similar fashion began off his profession with the RJD.
Rabri Devi, who like Chaudhary is a member of the legislative council, presented her excellent needs to her former cupboard colleague, however now not with out including that for the BJP baniya se guy bhar gaya hai to Mahto ko bana diya’ (having been carried out with a Vaishya, the BJP is now making a bet on an OBC).
PATNA: The BJP’s new Bihar unit leader Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday asserted that securing all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state subsequent yr and making sure an “absolute majority” for his birthday party within the meeting polls of 2025 will probably be his best priorities.
Recently, the Chief of the Opposition within the state legislative council, Chaudhary, who used to be a minister within the Nitish Kumar executive until the JD(U) chief remained with NDA, additionally didn’t deny that through hedging its bets on him, the BJP has sought to make a dent within the “Luv-Kush” base of the Bihar leader minister.
“The BJP cares for all. However, in fact, the place else would Luv Kush move except for where the place Lord Rama abides”, Chaudhary answered, tongue in cheek, to questions from reporters concerning the “Kurmi-Koeri” mix, recognized through the title of the legendary twins in Bihar’s political lexicon.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
The advance is a sign of the demanding situations confronted through the BJP in a state the place it has develop into a pressure to reckon with however feels hamstrung through the “pro-upper caste label”, given Bihar’s historical past of being the hotbed of Mandal politics.
A Koeri through caste, 54-year-old Chaudhary belongs to an influential political circle of relatives in Bihar.
His father Shakuni Chaudhary has been an MLA a number of instances and likewise served because the member of Khagaria Lok Sabha seat as soon as but even so being a founding member of the Samata Birthday celebration, to which Nitish Kumar at the start belonged.
By the way, Chaudhary had joined BJP slightly six years in the past, up to now having been related to each Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).
His two phrases within the Bihar Meeting from Parbatta, in 2000 and 2010, had been on RJD tickets and he used to be additionally a minister within the Rabri Devi executive from 2000 until she used to be voted out of energy.
His political profession started in 1999 with a arguable ministerial stint, when he used to be now not a member of both space of the state legislature, and which got here to an abrupt finish with the then governor Suraj Bhan ordering his dismissal at the floor of his being “under-age”.
In 2014, after Nitish Kumar stepped down as the executive minister taking ethical duty for the JD(U)’s debacle in Lok Sabha polls, Chaudhary surrender the RJD and joined the Jitan Ram Manjhi ministry.
Chaudhary used to be then a part of a faction comprising 13 disgruntled RJD MLAs, lots of whom later claimed that they didn’t intend to surrender the birthday party and their signatures had been “fraudulently” bought on a clean piece of paper to muster the numbers required for a cut up.
By way of 2017, he grew disenchanted with the JD(U) and joined the BJP, which ended up realigning with Nitish Kumar in a while afterwards.
Chaudhary succeeds Sanjay Jaiswal, who, by the way, had in a similar fashion began off his profession with the RJD.
Rabri Devi, who like Chaudhary is a member of the legislative council, presented her excellent needs to her former cupboard colleague, however now not with out including that for the BJP baniya se guy bhar gaya hai to Mahto ko bana diya’ (having been carried out with a Vaishya, the BJP is now making a bet on an OBC).