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As part of its new strategy, BJP has decided to exploit the fault-lines between the RJD and the Congress as well as pick on the internal rift in Lalu Prasad Yadav\u2019s family<\/h2>\n
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to change its strategy for poll-bound Bihar after analysing the response to Congress-led Opposition\u2019s \u2018Voter Adhikar Yatra\u2019 in the state, which saw Rahul Gandhi traverse 1,300 kilometres and raise questions on the integrity of the election process.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s election campaign started with the narrative of \u2018Jungle Raj\u2019, corruption during Lalu Prasad\u2019s rule and demographic shift that made the NDA throw its weight behind the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR).<\/p>\n

As part of its new strategy, BJP has decided to exploit the fault-lines between the RJD and the Congress. Rather than attacking both parties, BJP is going soft towards the RJD and referring to it as the \u201cbigger party” in the alliance to create a rift between the two parties.<\/p>\n

On Monday, former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, during a press conference in Delhi, subtly raised the issue, while also underlining the alleged intra-Yadav family rivalry. \u201cWhen they travel in a car, Rahul Gandhi is in front and Tejashwi (Yadav) is in the back. Akhilesh Yadav also gets a seat in the back\u2026But Tejashwi Yadav, why did you become the secondary player in Bihar? The Congress that does not have a vote of its own and functions due to you has made you the secondary player?” he asked. <\/p>\n

Prasad then went on to highlight the \u201cplight” of the Yadav family. He claimed Tejashwi\u2019s sister was spotted somewhere in North Bihar. \u201cThere are two MPs from Patna\u2014one is me and the other is Misa Bharti, who is the daughter of Lalu Ji and sister of Tejashwi. She was nowhere to be found. Has Rahul Gandhi strengthened the family\u2019s inner-rivalry?”<\/p>\n

Hindi words like \u2018Jungle Raj\u2019, \u2018Parivaarvaad\u2019, \u2018Bhrashtachar\u2019, \u2018Ghuspaithiya\u2019 that became part of the political lexicon during Bihar election campaign have suddenly gone silent, thanks to BJP\u2019s strategy shift. In the coming days, there is likely to be far lesser discourse on SIR during campaigns, added party sources. <\/p>\n

While the BJP dismissed Gandhi\u2019s 16-day-long yatra as \u2018flop\u2019, the crowd he managed to gather did not go unnoticed by the top leadership, say sources. BJP\u2019s decision to go for a shift in its strategy came after that, News18 has reliably learnt.<\/p>\n

However, BJP refuses to call it a deliberate strategy shift and terms it a manifestation of political realities.<\/p>\n

\u201cTejashwi Yadav announced the name of Rahul Gandhi as the future prime ministerial candidate with great hopes. On the other hand, when Rahul Gandhi was asked whether he endorses Tejashwi for CM, he did not say a word. Tejashwi was left heart-broken. Then Tejashwi Yadav took matters into his own hands and announced himself as the CM candidate, getting endorsement from Akhilesh Yadav, even as Rahul Gandhi remained silent. The two parties got individual posters. This contradiction will be reflected during seat sharing as well. Hence, BJP need not strategise. It is for all to see,” BJP\u2019s national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala told News18. <\/p>\n

While the Congress-RJD may bear some inherent contradictions, the response to the Yatra has not just surprised but forced the BJP-led NDA alliance in Bihar to redraw its strategies. One may argue that Congress did not question the poll body\u2019s integrity when it won successive state election in Himachal Pradesh, Telangana etc. But politics is perception. And in Bihar, Rahul Gandhi\u2019s yatra has helped create a perception among a certain section of society. It is this perception that BJP wants to change.<\/p>\n

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