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Three days after he dumped the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
on Wednesday proved his majority in the assembly and declared that his
former ally won't win the next Lok Sabha battle.
Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of now trying to impose divisive
politics, he said the politics of consultation which the BJP believed in
under Atal Bihari Vajpayee had ended.
In a speech in the assembly during a trust motion he moved to prove his
majority, Nitish Kumar said India was built on secular foundations and
his party would not tolerate anyone trying to cause religious divide.
"The country should be run in a manner so as to take everyone along...
Coalition governments are the norm now. No party should be under the
false premise that they can run the country on their own steam," he
said.
"The work ethics of Atalji (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) was based on how to
take everyone along, based on consultations... But now it has changed,"
he added.
Nitish Kumar sailed through with 126 votes in his favour after 91 BJP
members and a Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) legislator walked out of the
243-member house before the voting.
Criticising the BJP, with which his party split last week after Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi was made the party's election campaign
chief, Nitish Kumar said the BJP's dream of ruling India would be
shattered.
He said the BJP had no chance to win the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
"Even if we remained with them, notching up 200 seats would be
difficult... Don't be under the illusion that you can do it alone. This
is the time of coalitions," he said.
Taking a dig at Modi's Gujarat model of development, Nitish Kumar said:
"What vikas (development) model is this where you improve areas that
are already good? What kind of improvement is it?"
He said the BJP had benefited by aligning with his Janata Dal-United (JD-U).
"We will not tolerate thopna (imposition of views). We are for the
policy of taking everyone along and against divisive policies," he
asserted.
Nitish Kumar got the support of JD-U's 117 legislators, four
independents, four of the Congress and the sole Communist Party of India
member. One JD-U legislator is in jail.
Those who voted against Nitish Kumar included 22 members of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and two independents.
Soon after the JD-U ended its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP Sunday,
Nitish Kumar said he would seek a vote of confidence at a special
session of the assembly Wednesday.
Nitish Kumar called off the alliance and his colleague Sharad Yadav
quit as convenor of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance following
differences with the BJP over the growing clout of Modi.