Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of the RJD and deputy chief minister of Bihar, recently declared that his party, as part of the new government would fulfil the promise to create 10 lakh jobs made during the 2020 Assembly elections.
Prashant Kishor, a former ballot strategist who is now a political activist, poked fun at CM Nitish Kumar’s Independence Day announcement that he would create 10 lakh jobs and an additional 10 lakh employment opportunities, mentioning that he would accept Nitish as his leader and drop his current Jan Suraj campaign if even 5-10 individuals found employment.
Prashant Kishor, a former ballot strategist who is now a political activist, poked fun at CM Nitish Kumar’s Independence Day announcement that he would create 10 lakh jobs and an additional 10 lakh employment opportunities, mentioning that he would accept Nitish as his leader and drop his current Jan Suraj campaign if even 5-10 individuals found employment.
At a public meeting in Samastipur, Kishor, who is travelling the state as part of his Jan Suraj Campaign, predicted that the Mahagathbandhan government wouldn’t last long and would fall apart before the next general elections. Additionally, he asserted that there would be several more instances of such sudden changes in alliance politics till the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar in 2025.
” Nitish Ji is seated (on the chair), after putting ‘ Fevicol,’ and his allies are constantly changing. There has been no stability with the sixth attempt to remain in the government in the past ten years. Additionally, Bihar still ranks last on the majority of development-related parameters,” Kishor said.
In response to the hundreds of thousands of jobs announced on Independence Day, first by deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and then by CM Nitish, Kishor said: “If the government would manage to offer 10 lakh employment over the next one or two years, I will withdraw my campaign in their support. It is merely a gimmick to fool trick people. Where will they obtain the money to pay 10 lakh people’s salaries?
He continued: ” The government has failed to pay even the people who now hold government jobs. They are talking about providing 10 lakh jobs, but contractual teachers aren’t even paid for six months. However, I would be the happiest person in the world if they could manage to create 20 lakh employment. “
According to Kishor, within three months of his arrival in the state, politics in Bihar had changed “180 degrees.” He launched his Jan Suraj campaign on May 5. “They were telling me which equations to use in this situation. In just three months, the politics in this state have completely transformed. You can never predict how things will develop later on. Let me assure you that before the next assembly elections, things will change a good amount.
“Such unpredictability will persist,” he continued, “since the public hasn’t given any of these parties a crystal-clear mandate. The attempt to run the government through unplanned arrangements failed. Similar attempts have now been made in Bihar, and they will also fail there.
“It is the same NDA government that the people elected in 2005, and it accomplished excellent work. However, individuals who do not have the mandate but still control the government will never win the trust of the people.
JAN SURAJ ABHIYAN
On May 5, 2022, Prashant Kishor announced that he will work to bring public justice in Bihar. He wants to make backward Bihar the new developed Bihar. That’s why he has started Jan Suraj. For this, first of all, about 17-18 thousand people are connected. He will meet these people personally in the next three to four months. After this, he will start the padayatra on October 2 from West Champaran. This journey will be 3000 kms. In this, he will try to meet every person of Bihar who wants to bring a change in the betterment of the state. And then if the consent of those people is reached, then we will also consider the formation of a political party.
Prashant Kishor declared on Wednesday that if the newly formed “Mahagathbandhan” government in Bihar creates five to ten lakh jobs within the next year or two, he will forsake his “Jan Suraj Abhiyan” and will accept Nitish Kumar as a leader. Kishor, a former confidant of Kumar, spoke to his followers in Samastipur on Wednesday and asserted that the public does not support the RJD-JD(U)-Congress government.
