Ahead of Sharad’s visit state JD (U) grapples with problems
VIJAY DEO JHA
RANCHI
Things have long been bad for the JD (U) in Jharkhand but they have never been so bad as now. It has already lost precious counts of number in the Assembly to save face as a recognised political outfit in the tally of the Election Commission of India. It has of course a jilted state president, Jaleswar Mahto; who is more prone to promote factionalism to save his post rather to take some urgent steps to address organisational follies before the party gets more faceless in Jharkhand.
Factionalism has affected the party down the line: it has more leaders and less of the workers. Only last day two of the party seniors Bhagban Singh and Ramesh Singh acted like macho-man holding each others’ collar at a press conference rather to show maturity. It happened just a few days before when the party national president Sharad Yadav is on an urgent house keeping job in Jharkhand on July 26.
And before you begin to wonder whether Yadav will be able to discipline his unruly house in Jharkhand and energize his cadres; things that wonder party leaders the most, whether they can converge even a modest gathering of thousand workers for the conclave.
“I do not believe that we will be able to gather even a thousand workers to attend the party programme. Many have joined other parties, many have gone dormant and many others have lost interest because the party organisation was deliberately made defunct,” a party senior warily told.
The party in the past offered a poor score card of its presence through demonstrations, regular meetings and others. The Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar had famously announced an ambitious plan to expand electoral and organisational base of Jharkhand JD (U) on the line of Bihar. During last assembly election Nitish had deputed three of his trusted lieutenants Sharavan kumar, Bhim Singh and Ravindra Singh for electioneering and to diagnose the problem of the state unit. Nitish had peppered Jharkhand with many chopperstop visits, addressing a good number of high-voltage meetings. He was the spike-points of this campaign that bagged his party only two MLAs: Raja Peter and Sudha Chaudhary.
Nitish furiously dumped his plan soon after. Jharkhand was not his cup of tea, nevertheless state leaders regularly continues to pay him a visit for his benign look.
“People in Jharkhand rejected us because we could not perform up to their expectation. We were not competent. We delivered exceptionally well in Bihar against Jharkhand where delivered a dud. We need to address urgent and core issues,” Shravan Kumar told The Pioneer over telephone.
The core issue, many in the party think needed to be addressed on urgent basis; is the removal of Jaleswar Mahto who is facing flanks from all sides.
“Even Nitishji and Sharadji are not in the favour of retaining him. But they have different choices and difference about the selection,” a leader said who did not want his name to be quoted. Nitish wants a Kurmi face as state president. Sharad prefers a tribal leader to lead the party. Nitish is facing a predicament of peculiar kind. State JD (U) has no such Kurmi face to fit in his design. Nevertheless, the state JD (U) has one popular tribal face, Raja Peter who is not only young but also has considerable mass following. Many in the party accept Peter as the future face of the party. Peter is the minister of Disaster Management and Excise Department in the Arjun Munda led coalition government. “He is not only ministering his political fortune but the fortune of his party also. He has proved himself as a good administrator and has caliber and courage to expand the base of the party,” a leader of the state JD (U) executive committee said.
The burden to Nevertheless, party’s lone popular face and minister in Arjun Munda led BJP coalition government Raja Peter. But Mahto has known disparage against Peter to that extent where he used all tricks and excuses to stop Peter from becoming minister in the cabinet.
A bereft state headquarters of the JD (U) resounded with the severity of multifold crisis, leaders looked desperately for explanations they could not afford to air publicly. But they said enough to understand: “We hope his visit may not like yet another drops of passing rain that barely even seeds the ground, much less create a harvest.”
VIJAY DEO JHA
RANCHI
Things have long been bad for the JD (U) in Jharkhand but they have never been so bad as now. It has already lost precious counts of number in the Assembly to save face as a recognised political outfit in the tally of the Election Commission of India. It has of course a jilted state president, Jaleswar Mahto; who is more prone to promote factionalism to save his post rather to take some urgent steps to address organisational follies before the party gets more faceless in Jharkhand.
Factionalism has affected the party down the line: it has more leaders and less of the workers. Only last day two of the party seniors Bhagban Singh and Ramesh Singh acted like macho-man holding each others’ collar at a press conference rather to show maturity. It happened just a few days before when the party national president Sharad Yadav is on an urgent house keeping job in Jharkhand on July 26.
And before you begin to wonder whether Yadav will be able to discipline his unruly house in Jharkhand and energize his cadres; things that wonder party leaders the most, whether they can converge even a modest gathering of thousand workers for the conclave.
“I do not believe that we will be able to gather even a thousand workers to attend the party programme. Many have joined other parties, many have gone dormant and many others have lost interest because the party organisation was deliberately made defunct,” a party senior warily told.
The party in the past offered a poor score card of its presence through demonstrations, regular meetings and others. The Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar had famously announced an ambitious plan to expand electoral and organisational base of Jharkhand JD (U) on the line of Bihar. During last assembly election Nitish had deputed three of his trusted lieutenants Sharavan kumar, Bhim Singh and Ravindra Singh for electioneering and to diagnose the problem of the state unit. Nitish had peppered Jharkhand with many chopperstop visits, addressing a good number of high-voltage meetings. He was the spike-points of this campaign that bagged his party only two MLAs: Raja Peter and Sudha Chaudhary.
Nitish furiously dumped his plan soon after. Jharkhand was not his cup of tea, nevertheless state leaders regularly continues to pay him a visit for his benign look.
“People in Jharkhand rejected us because we could not perform up to their expectation. We were not competent. We delivered exceptionally well in Bihar against Jharkhand where delivered a dud. We need to address urgent and core issues,” Shravan Kumar told The Pioneer over telephone.
The core issue, many in the party think needed to be addressed on urgent basis; is the removal of Jaleswar Mahto who is facing flanks from all sides.
“Even Nitishji and Sharadji are not in the favour of retaining him. But they have different choices and difference about the selection,” a leader said who did not want his name to be quoted. Nitish wants a Kurmi face as state president. Sharad prefers a tribal leader to lead the party. Nitish is facing a predicament of peculiar kind. State JD (U) has no such Kurmi face to fit in his design. Nevertheless, the state JD (U) has one popular tribal face, Raja Peter who is not only young but also has considerable mass following. Many in the party accept Peter as the future face of the party. Peter is the minister of Disaster Management and Excise Department in the Arjun Munda led coalition government. “He is not only ministering his political fortune but the fortune of his party also. He has proved himself as a good administrator and has caliber and courage to expand the base of the party,” a leader of the state JD (U) executive committee said.
The burden to Nevertheless, party’s lone popular face and minister in Arjun Munda led BJP coalition government Raja Peter. But Mahto has known disparage against Peter to that extent where he used all tricks and excuses to stop Peter from becoming minister in the cabinet.
A bereft state headquarters of the JD (U) resounded with the severity of multifold crisis, leaders looked desperately for explanations they could not afford to air publicly. But they said enough to understand: “We hope his visit may not like yet another drops of passing rain that barely even seeds the ground, much less create a harvest.”
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