RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will take part in a rally to mark the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Devi Lal in Fatehabad, Haryana on Sunday. This is a completely non-Congress and non-BJP rally. In this, apart from Congress and BJP, leaders of almost all the regional parties of the country have been invited. Apart from Lalu and Nitish, many big opposition leaders from Sharad Pawar to K Chandrashekhar Rao and HD Deve Gowda to MK Stalin are likely to take part in this rally. Some leader from Mamta Banerjee’s party will also take part in this rally. It is believed that this rally will mark the beginning of opposition unity for the next Lok Sabha elections. The rally is being held at a time when the Congress is claiming that opposition unity is not possible without it.
The special thing in this is that Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar will participate in the Fatehabad rally and will also meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. That is, on one side there is a non-Congress rally and on the other hand there is goodwill with Congress. Now the question is, how will these two leaders balance this matter? RJD and JD(U) do not need Congress to run the government in Bihar because even without them both these parties have majority. But both the leaders have kept the Congress together for the necessary opposition unity of the BJP. In Bihar and Jharkhand, regional parties will not work without the Congress. But will the rest of the parties be ready for any such relationship or electoral rapprochement? Both Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar together have to do this politics for the Congress.
