nitish kumar; K C Tyagi, the general secretary of JD(U) in a statement to the Indian Express stated he has resigned in the past as well but the party pleaded with him to hold on to the office. On Sunday, Tyagi quit as the national spokesperson of the party. “This year, I was appointed as the Spokeswoman again. It is not easy. From 7 a.m. to 11 pm. I am on call all the time. Young people should come and take the wheel,’ he noted.
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nitish kumar; K C Tyagi’s resignation.
As per JD(U) sources, Tyagi’s resignation had something to do with his over the top anti-BJP sentiments over some election ideological issues. The sources uttered that the party found itself in an embarrassing situation in the NDA due to some of the comments made by the party on a few ‘sensitive issues’.”
“A very much respected party leader he is, but he started giving messages without taking advisory from the high command as to what should be the party’s stand on certain matters. UCC, lateral entry and many more sensitive issues.”
According to a senior JD (U) official nitish kumar who spoke to The Indian Express, encouraging remarks made without running them by the party leadership may pose challenges to the coalition.
This has also had an adverse spin, the joint statement released by Tyagi and the opposition leaders over the Israel Hamas conflict did not go down well with the allies. How can you oppose your own side on the foreign policy issues? These are concerns of national defense, and the decision is made by the Union Government after many factors have been looked at. We ought to even be worried about it.
But you are arranging lunches on the Israel-Palestine conflict with opposition leaders. That is fine as long as it is done in a personal attire. But you are releasing statements along with the opposition whereas, the JD (U) leader remarked, “in a function of India, there is nothing wrong in doing so as long as it is done under cover of one’s head.”
nitish kumar and Chirag Paswan
The party official, however, indicated that Mr. Nitish Kumar took the action on his own volition and that there was no such pressure from BJP on him.
Ten days back, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan expressed his fears regarding a UPSC ad that asked for applications for lateral entry appointments to top bureaucratic positions. He stated that his party was “absolutely not in support” of this. Tyagi then went on to say that the move would turn Rahul Gandhi into a champion of the depressed class and that the government has given a weapon in the hands of the opposition.
Even if Tyagi appeared to have expressed the JD(U)’s official position on caste censuses and reservations earmarked for the dalits or other depressed classes which some may find in his favour, his earlier comments were perceived to be going overboard for an ally. The advertisement, which Tyagi called a ‘victory of social justice politics led by Nitish Kumyar’, to which he claimed belonged people of the backward classes which even the caste system inflict, was eventually withdrawn by the embarrassed administration.
It wasn’t more than a week that Tyagi stepped into the shoes of the opposition including the framing of the issue vis a vis Israel and Hamas, where the government is trying to maintain an equilibrium. On the other hand, Tyagi and Javed Ali of the Samajwadi Party hosted for lunch the Secretary General of the League of Parliamentarians for Al Quds, Mohammed Makram Balawi.
Balawi was rather fierce in his stance about Israel’s destruction of civilians, which he claimed constituted more than half of all the victims and even included women and children left behind after the men went to war, and Israel hunted them down knowing they could not protect themselves.
nitish kumar,Tyagi and Ali
They all issued a joint statement appealing within the persisting lunch meeting for India to come out with a policy cessation regarding arms sales to Israel, which was the aim of the gathering. Tyagi and Ali were also cross joined with different Members of Parliament and congress along with the approbative party of Aam Aadmi.
The people signing this declaration agree regardless of their political affiliation to condemn the aggression of Zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. The heads of state stressed in the joined statement that “this barbaric attack is an outrage against humanity and the law and the concepts of justice and peace.”.
Those comments were made at a time when JD (U) was trying to balance its politics in the sense that it was supporting the BJP and also wanted to present itself as a key player in a coalition where it didn’t have most of the seats. The party intends to become such a dependable ally so as to get the maximum Centrally sponsored schemes to Bihar before the 2025 assembly polls.
Tyagi, however, spoke of a more forthright position under the JD (U) but other allies would shift to on issues such as the UCC.
Addressing the suggestion raised regarding UCC by the PM on August 15, Tyagi asserted that, although the party was for UCC, widespread consultation was what was being sought. He contended that Kumar himself made this position clear in his letter to the Law Commission on 28 March 2017. On the other hand, the LJP (RV) stated that it will wait before commenting as far as the UCC is concerned, till the government has completed the drafting of the UCC.
Tyagi issued an explanation how he viewed the decision to disqualify wrestler Vinesh Phogat from participating in the Olympics as “a suspected conspiracy”. This was similar to the comments of Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Congress who was the CM Haryana at that time.
Immediately upon learning of the results from Lok Sabha elections, Tyagi went ahead to clarify the JD(U) position with respect to the concerns regarding the Agnipath scheme, and the push for special status for Bihar during the discussions with NDA partners.
The voter is peeved by the scheme. And in order to help remove these imperfections, our party wants it done positively at the government level. We completely endorse the NDA, but we believe that justice has to be done to Bihar too, sometimes people advocate it. Tyagi, for his part, opined that there is no other option, if the plight and unemployment problem that the state has faced since the bifurcation is to be solved, other than special status to Bihar.
