7.9.15

CM candidate : BJP engineers guessing game

Abdul Qadir / ToI
Senior BJP leader and home minister Rajnath Singh's statement that the BJP will soon take a call on whether to project someone as the CM candidate or not in the coming Bihar elections has started a guessing game fuelling speculations that it may not be very wise to put PM Modi's popularity directly on test in Bihar, of the all places. But the Delhi experiment continues to haunt the BJP feel observers.
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According to Ali Hussain, a political science teacher, non projection of the CM face may cut both ways and and as such it is difficult to say that it will follow the same trajectory as it did in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana. Whereas in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana, BJP's rivals too did not declare their chief ministerial candidate, in Bihar, the rival alliance has already declared Nitish Kumar as the CM candidate, said the Political Science teacher. Moreover, in Bihar BJP finds itself in the league of untested allies and the alliance leaders are known for their acrobatic skills and opportunistic conduct. more

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