Congress’ choice of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as its Lok Sabha leader reflects a serious poverty of ideas. Its preference for lung power over intellect shows it hasn’t learnt lessons from its election debacle. Chowdhury’s pending criminal cases also robs Congress of high moral ground it assumed against BJP’s Pragya Thakur.
Appointment of JP Nadda shows BJP leaders are running the party like Congress
The appointment of lightweight J.P. Nadda as BJP’s working president — a post not mentioned in its constitution — shows he will be more of a figurehead while Amit Shah will continue calling the shots. As the BJP gets more entrenched in power, it also appears to be going the Congress way.
Muzaffarpur shows Nitish has dropped the governance ball. He’s too busy playing politics
125-plus children dying in an encephalitis outbreak, even in Bihar, in this day and age is 125-plus too many. Bihar had stopped making headlines for the wrong reasons because CM Nitish Kumar was fixing its broken governance. Muzaffarpur shows he has dropped that ball while being busy with political manoeuvring.
Intellectuals are often unable to read the ground vibrations.
Yogiji next door is innocent of governance. CM Nitish Kumar has been CM of Bihar for fifteen years, also served at the Centre. In civil service terms, he is a batchmate of CM Naveen Patnaik, who also helms a less developed state. Young girls cycling to school was an image from Sushasan Babu. Now these tragic deaths, the other shaming incident from the shelter homes. He has no dynasty, no great lust for money. Unclear why Shri Nitish Kumar is willing his career of public service to end on such a dismal, dismaying note.