Recently, two new alliances have been formed in the state. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)’s Asaduddin Owaisi and the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP)’s Upendra Kushwaha have come together to form the Grand Democratic Secular Alliance. The Bahujan Samaj Party and former RJD MP Devendra Prasad Yadav’s Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic) are also part of alliance that has Kushwaha as its chief ministerial candidate. While in the 2015 Assembly elections in the state the AIMIM had won just one of the six constituencies it contested in, the party got noticed in Bihar last year when it won the Kishanganj bypoll in October.
(Indian Express)
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Such alliances for the sole purpose of defeating BJP won’t work as they do not have a sound political basis except that ‘enemy’s enemy’ is a friend. Unfortunately, a state like Bihar where illiteracy and poverty is high will end in a chaotic alliance like this with no clear political agenda. Let’s sincerely hope it fails