Mocking each Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) over their participation within the joint opposition alliance to tackle the ruling BJP in subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls, political strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday puzzled what position a celebration with 0 Lok Sabha MPs (RJD) and a frontrunner dropping foothold in his personal state (Kumar) would play in deciding who runs the nation after the 2024 basic elections.

“RJD does not have a single MP from Bihar…is it possible for such a party to decide who governs the nation? Nitish ji has all of 42 legislators and 16 MPs due to his previous alliance. When you are becoming less powerful by the day, what role can you play in national politics?” Kishor says in a video uploaded by his workplace on X, the social media platform earlier generally known as Twitter.

Kishor, a former chief of Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), who has, nevertheless, turn out to be a fierce critic of the Bihar chief minister, continued in opposition to the veteran politician: “Nitish ji‘s own condition is so bad, his foothold is shrinking in his own state. If you look at the order of precedence in the opposition bloc, the Congress is the largest party, followed by the Trinamool, then the DMK…parties which govern states with full authority and have 20-25 MPs. Nitish Kumar ji, however, has nothing…he has no party or image left. Only Bihar’s media talks about Nitish Kumar…you go to other states, nobody talks about him.”

He reiterated that Bihar’s ruling Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) is related solely to the state, and doesn’t matter in nationwide politics.

RJD, JD(U) in opposition alliance

The two events are among the many constituents of I.N.D.I.A (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance); the coalition members have come collectively to disclaim a 3rd straight time period on the Centre to prime minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

The group has held two conferences; the primary was hosted by Nitish in Patna on June 23, whereas the second spherical of talks befell in Bengaluru within the Congress-ruled Karnataka on July 17 and 18. The third spherical, at which the variety of events is anticipated to extend from the present 26, is scheduled for August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai. The Mumbai convention can be hosted by Maharashtra’s opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition.