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This special report focuses on the escalating seat-sharing tensions within Bihar’s Mahagathbandhan, featuring Congress spokesperson Anshul Avjit, BJP’s Sanju Verma, JDU’s Dr Sanjay Kumar, and RJD’s Dr Nawal Kishore. The discussion highlights the lack of clarity on Congress’s seat count and the VIP party’s threat to exit the alliance. Dr Nawal Kishore asserted, 'Maha Gadbandhan is purely intact and united that we are going to throw off a government which has been destroying everything of Bihar.' The programme examines the alliance’s internal challenges, the impact of VIP’s demands, and the broader implications for Bihar’s political stability ahead of the elections.

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00:00Let's go to my guest. Anshul Avjit joins me. He's Congress's spokesperson. Sanju Verma is BJP's
00:06spokesperson. Dr. Sanjay Kumar is spokesperson JDU and Dr. Naval Kishore is spokesperson RJD. So all
00:12the four major parties, national and regional in Bihar are joining us. Appreciate all of you
00:20joining us. I want to come one by one to each of you. Anshul Avjit to you first because the real
00:25headache at the moment seems to be in the Mahagadbandan. The BJP is gone at least and
00:29announced 71 seats, including their candidates. The Congress is still having its CEC without
00:36clarity on how many seats you will contest. So there seems to be some confusion in the
00:41Mahagadbandan, which should have been settled surely days ago. It's all very last minute.
00:48This is not the real contest, whether they announced it a couple of hours earlier. And anyway, you
00:53saw, you know, the groaning and the grumbling within the NDA with tweets coming out, you
00:58know, Pindra Kishore saying that, maim Aashiana mahi banaunga jahan barish hoti hai. It's not an
01:03emphatic seal of approval in their camp either. It doesn't matter. You know, the real test,
01:08the real story is on 6th and 11th. Gadbandan politics is what it is. I mean, you said so
01:14yourself. It's not something that the Congress party or any other party is unfamiliar with.
01:19It has its due process. Yes, there have been delays. Yes, there are bottlenecks. But eventually,
01:24it will be resolved. The CEC is going on right now. I'm not going to preempt what they're going
01:29to say. But they're going to decide and conclude before the nomination's date ends. Yes, you know,
01:35I mean, I'm sure the candidates are waiting with bated breath and their levels of nervousness must be
01:41increasing. But there's no nervousness on the party on the whole. We are mature players. We've gone
01:45and seen this before. We can handle it. No, no, no. You know, you're making it sound. No,
01:51no, Anshul Avjit. Anshul Avjit, can you tell me how many seats the Congress is going to contest?
01:56Last time you contested 70. There's no clarity. You're saying I'm asking you for some clarity.
02:04Therefore, how many seats are you going to contest? The CEC is going on right now. The clarity will
02:10emerge. I am not going to second guess what they are going to say or conclude. That is why it's
02:15being held. They're empowered to make those decisions. Look, I'll tell you one thing.
02:19It's not a question of it's also a question of number of seats, because foregoing seats for the
02:24Congress or any other party, you know, means that you are compromising on your political interest.
02:29We don't want to compromise on the political interest while maintaining also the integrity of
02:36the Mahagatbandhan. That remains our primary goal. You know, there is a politics of compromise,
02:42of consensus and also a politics of sacrifice. We've done it time and again. We can do it again,
02:49but it has to be in the larger interest of the Gatbandhan. We will work accordingly and it will be
02:53resolved in a matter of hours. Okay. You're saying it will be resolved in a matter of hours. As I said,
03:03there and there Dr. Naval Kishore spokesperson RJD. Can you explain? Is it that the RJD wants now to
03:10virtually call all the shots? There is also concern that one of your allies, the VIP is even threatening
03:16to walk out of this alliance. They want more seats. This is Mukesh Sani's party. And for viewers who want
03:22to understand VIP politics, this is a party primarily of the of the Malla community, important, influential,
03:31extremely backward cast. I want to understand from you, is this Mahagatbandhan intact or not?
03:37Or is the Mahagatbandhan going to split soon? Intact hai?
03:42Rajdeep, one thing is true and fact that Mahagatbandhan is purely intact and united on one issue that we are going
03:54to throw off a government which has been destroying everything of Bihar and it is creating a situation
04:01where all kinds of migration, migration for employment, migration for education, migration for health.
04:07There is no issue of industrial development. All kinds of problems we have seen and we have already
04:14shown to the people and people have accepted that we have given jobs. Now we won't be hard to develop
04:21in a particular way where there are all kinds of problems.
04:23The fact, this is your agenda. Today's subject, we will discuss your agenda. I am asking you a basic
04:29question of your alliance. The voters of Bihar want to know whether the, if at the last moment
04:35you all are fighting for every seat with each other, how will you provide a stable government?
04:44No, Rajdeep, we are not fighting for seats. We are preparing for the best win that Bihar people will
04:50see in the time to come. And for that we have to discuss seat by seat. How can we defeat a party
04:57which is trying to manipulate mandate right from you leave apart, leave apart election commission,
05:03leave apart all kinds of agencies. They are also trying to manipulate the mandate by putting thousand
05:09rupees into the accounts of women who have seen their son unemployed, who have sent their husband,
05:17whose husband has been forced to migrate to do work in the other states and so many problems in their own
05:23life. Sixty-five percent women are anemic. So to that particular community, they wants to manipulate
05:30their bandit. They want to copy out agenda like 125 unit of electricity and all good kind of things.
05:37Okay, you are saying, you are saying manipulate.
05:39We want the people to believe that this government is trying.
05:40Nawal Kishore ji, Nawal Kishore ji, I get your point.
05:43You are saying, you are like, I'm not sure how that is, I just don't know how that is.
05:58You are saying that this government is trying to manipulate people with disabilities.
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