Letter to BS: JD(U) leader Uday Narayan Chaudhary plans to join RJD

With reference to “Exploring options” (May 6), Bihar politics is known for its need-based and opportunism-centric “migratory” overtones. No wonder, former Assembly Speaker and senior Janata Dal United leader Uday Narayan Chaudhary has quit his party and is planning to join the Rashtriya Janata Dal. It is ironical that he has made a self-serving plea that the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party turned the JD(U) into an anti-Dalit party, compromising on the latter’s social agenda. Perhaps, the same might be the case with the sitting BJP MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha (pictured), who, after losing utility in his parent party, has been trying to make his political presence felt by injudiciously raking up key issues that put the BJP in an embarrassing position. It’s quite interesting to learn that he has already had some “discussions” with Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav and may be “migrating” to the RJD before 2019.

The RJD seems to be toying with the idea of exploiting the extant political situation by claiming that party chief Lalu Yadav (who is in jail), was a “victim of circumstances” wilfully created by the JD(U)-BJP government. Long live the dirty politics of Indian democracy.

Kumar Gupt   Panchkula

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