Bihar elections: Lalu Prasad Yadav returns to political centre stage after 10 years and how!

Forming an alliance with his rival for Bihar elections 2015 worked in favour of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Nitish Kumar’s JDU, which ousted Prasad’s RJD in 2005, formed a grand alliance with the RJD supremo and won the state elections.
This victory has yet again brought Prasad in the political limelight after 10 years.

Prasad, who proved to be a crowd and vote magnate during elections, is going to be the kingmaker.

In contrast to 22 seats in 2010, Prasad’s RJD in Bihar elections 2015 won 80 seats.

Despite having the upper hand, Prasad has let Kumar be the chief minister of Bihar, backing JDU like never before.

Not only this, the RJD boss helped the Grand Alliance consolidate the OBC vote-bank in its favour by attacking RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his suggestion for reviewing the reservation policy.

The BJP’s poll plank of Prasad’s ‘jungle raj’ backfired too and the RJD chief galvanised its votes to JD (U) candidates too.

The BJP, which began its poll pitch on development and economic growth, was under pressure and deviated to caste politics. It tried to stop RJP’s juggernaut by giving tickets to 22 Yadav candidates but it failed as well.

Now it is to see in which direction the Grand Alliance will steer Bihar to. Will the kingmaker return with his scams as well? How will be the favour returned to his family including his wife Rabri Devi, sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap and his daughter Misa Bharti, who campaigned for the elections? Time will tell.

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