A Split

 A Split, both telegenic and telly-bugging... A departure based on apprehension and assessment… A break up where both the partners play victim and no one takes the blame. Yes! It’s not Jiah Khan. Am talking about Janata Dal(U) and its divorce from BJP!

Here is a split, which not only shrivels the already slim NDA but has weakened the force that is anti-Congress. A split that speaks less on Narendra Modi’s polarization and more on Nitish Kumar’s dichotomy. Is it purely a clash of issues and Ideology; or there are things we do not know of? Not being privy to both the camps, it will be unjust if I endorse Sushil Modi, when he says JD(U) is apprehensive of its support base being dented; and equally it will be unreliable if I comment on the tightness of JD(U)’s embracement to the 3^rd resolution in our preamble, which Sikri, C.J. and Chandrachud J. calls to be the basic. But incredible is our political archives and incredulous is our political developments.

As a mugwump when I see it, I find it interesting. It is not after the “coronation” of Modi at Goa; it was already in the air before. And everybody heard it when Nitish screamed the necessity of using topi at the Ramlila Maidan. Their resolution might not have mentioned the Bad Boy’s name but, they say, it is indication enough. Surprising was when they set a dead line for BJP to declare their Prime Ministerial candidate because the Nation’s mood is increasingly tilted towards a Man, who is causing irritation to the Bihar Chief Minister. And even more surprising was when Nitish mistook 16^th June as 31^st December and calls it Off!

Nitish didn’t have any objection and was part of the alliance when the saffron party was satiated with Ram Bhakti. And the latest released video clearly confirms that Nitish was not suffering from NaMonia in 2003. Am glad Nitish didn’t call them concocted, and those pics there suggest that Modi was no-untouchable post Godhra. Ram Vilas Paswan stepped down. But where was Nitish then? Lalu’s allegation of ‘failing to order a probe’ holds some water and can’t be dismissed.

The country would have appreciated, if Nitish would have said- I want to split because I don’t like the tunic of a person, who is anointed as BJP’s campaign committee chief; but the jerry-built reason given is easily seen through. An agreement with SCS as consideration may be a possibility, Ineludible!