15.9.15

Congress in Bihar polls: target RSS, not seats

Sheela Bhatt / IE
In Bihar, Congress is, apparently, not concentrating on electoral politics. It aims to strengthen the secular plank against BJP. It wants to echo Bihar’s secular victory, if it happens, to pan-Indian voters. As, the former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has loaned his mahadalit candidates to fight on BJP’s lotus symbol, some of Nitish Kumar’s supporters too will be accommodated by the Congress. The Congress general secretary C.P. Joshi, party in-charge of Bihar, is in the unenviable position of keeping the focus on the larger secular fight than on his party’s battle to win seats. more

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