Jitan Ram Manjhi is doing ‘Khela’.
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In June last year, when there was going to be a grand gathering of opposition parties against Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, at the last moment, Santosh Kumar Suman, MLA of Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (Hum-Se) and son of former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. Resigned from the cabinet. Then Nitish had expressed fear of treason from Manjhi, his son and other leaders of his party, while the reply received was that the Chief Minister wanted the merger of Hum-Se with JDU. Meanwhile, the video of Tu-Tu Main-Main between Manjhi and Nitish in the House also went viral. Now, again the circumstances changed and Nitish Kumar himself made a comeback with the Bharatiya Janata Party citing the mandate of 2020. Manjhi’s son is again in Nitish cabinet. But, in the meantime he has also threatened with the demand of another ministerial post. And, now it is coming to light that Manjhi has spoken to Congress’s number one leader Rahul Gandhi.
Later I admitted that there was an offer, somewhere like that…
Jitan Ram Manjhi did not even once accept that he had any offer until the NDA government was formed under the leadership of Nitish Kumar in the state on January 28. He and his son were clearly seen together with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Not even two-three days had passed when Manjhi started the politics of pressure and said – “I was also offered the post of Chief Minister from there, but I had faith in NDA and PM Modi.” It was not known earlier whether Manjhi had this offer or not. Yes, it was definitely said that his son has been offered the post of Deputy CM. ‘First of all why this offer could happen’Amar Ujala‘ had told that on the day Rohini Acharya made a derogatory comment against CM Nitish Kumar on social media and then removed it, on the same day Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad was busy in making his son Tejashwi Yadav the Chief Minister. In the same mathematics, this offer was made to get the support of us with four MLAs. Right now neither Manjhi nor anyone from his party is accepting that he is in touch with the Grand Alliance, but it will not be surprising if this happens later.
What happened between Jitan Ram Manjhi and Rahul Gandhi?
Two state level leaders of CongressAmar UjalaTold – “Probably Jitan Ram Manjhi had called Rahul Gandhi.” Congress leaders are not coming forward and confirming what is going on in FISA, but they are not calling it wrong either. On the other hand, Manjhi is saying that nothing like this is happening. In such a situation, the Congress leaders took the matter forward and said that something must have been played on February 12, wait. We are keeping our MLA with us. Tejashwi Yadav is silent, he will tell its meaning only on time. As far as numerical strength is concerned, Rahul-Manjhi must have talked about this. It is being told that Manjhi has said that all the people of JDU are unhappy with the latest decision of Nitish Kumar and may break up. If something like this definitely happens then he will come forward. But, most of all there is a reason to reject the ongoing Manjhi-Rahul talks within the Congress. Manjhi’s son is a minister. Manjhi himself is waiting to get some big gift from NDA. The condition of Indie Alliance does not look like it is in a position to do miracles in Bihar. That is, there are less circumstances and more discussion. The truth will now be known on 12th February. It may happen that just as Jugaad did not work on 28th January, similarly nothing happens on 12th February.
