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Bihar polls: Secular alliance still a pipedream
The logjam over hammering together a `secular' alliance for the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections seems no where close to resolution, with the CPM issuing a fresh appeal to UPA partners to rally behind Lalu Prasad Yadav and the LJP almost immediately rejecting the call. Talking to newspersons after a meeting of the CPM's Politbureau, party leader Sitaram Yechury on Friday appealed to UPA allies -- the CPI and the LJP indirectly -- to join hands with Mr Yadav's RJD to ensure that the secular vote doesn't split. He said that the RJD will have to play an important role in the forthcoming elections and act as the rallying force to bring all secular parties under one umbrella. The CPM's efforts to unite the "secular" forces behind the RJD, however, failed to cut any ice with the target groups as Ramvilas Paswan's LJP made it clear that their insistence on a muslim CM was a matter of their `irrevocable commitment to muslim society'. In other words, they weren't ready to accept the leadership of either Mr Yadav or any of his nominees.
By Rajesh Kumar, Section Elections in Bihar Posted on Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 09:48:28 PM EST
Mr Yechury said the Politbureau and the central committee meetings of the party are discussing the Bihar situation. "The politburo is discussing how to prevent division of secular votes in Bihar. Bringing all secular forces is a difficult task but concerned parties themselves should realise that RJD is the single largest secular force in the state," he said. The CPI, however, has chosen not to ally with the RJD -- a party with which the state unit of the CPI has never been on the best of terms -- but has dropped enough hints to suggest that it'd forge ties with Mr Yadav's arch-rival, Mr Paswan. The CPM, which has only a marginal presence in the state compared to the CPI, has been a long standing ally of the RJD.
Admitting that bringing together the RJD, Congress and LJP was a `difficult' task, Mr Yechury said the effort would nevertheless have to be made if the NDA was to be kept from winning the polls.
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