Sharad Yadav is Missing Since Nitish Breaked Alliance

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This morning, as the Chief Minister took oath for a sixth time, Sharad Yadav was not present -he is in Delhi. At two recent meetings of an 18-party front which included the JDU, Sharad Yadav assured the attendees that his party was committed to fighting the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 His guarantee was made amid a sea of evidence to the contrary. Nitish Kumar backed demonetization in November, distinguishing himself as the only opposition leader to endorse Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock decision; in June, just two months after he helped assemble an anti-BJP front, he went renegade as it faced its first challenge in the election for the President of India; the JDU, he said, would vote for the BJP's choice. 

Nitish Kumar did not attend that meeting - or the one that followed to shortlist the candidate for Vice President ,who will be elected next month; it was Sharad Yadav who represented him.

 Annoyed opposition leaders noted that the Bihar Chief Minister had found the time to attend two meals hosted by the PM while skipping their conferrals.

 Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD has 80 of Bihar's 243 law-makers. Nitish Kumar's JDU has 71, the BJP has 58 giving Nitish Kumar seven votes more than what he needs to remain Chief Minister. But of his own party's law-makers, five are Muslims and six are Yadavs, the caste that's loyal to Lalu - and Sharad Yadav is reportedly concerned about alienating them and the community through the renewed arrangement with the BJP.

" But RCP Singh, another senior JDU leader, sarcastically observed that Anwar Ali had no problem in twice being elected to the Rajya Sabha with the BJP's backing.

 "His term is ending soon and he fears we won't give him another shot so he is making these statements," he said.

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