Left may attend GA function on Lohia death anniversary

PATNA: Even as the Left and grand alliance partners could not forge proper seat-sharing arrangement during parliamentary elections in the state this year, the former appears to be well disposed towards sharing the platform with them at the death anniversary function of socialist ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia to be organized by the latter here next month.
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) national chief Upendra Kushwaha has been made convener for organizing Lohia’s death anniversary function at Bapu Sabhagar here on October 12. “The matter was discussed at our party’s national executive committee meet held in Delhi on Monday. Kushwaha has been made state convener for the function. He would also reach out to the Left parties in the state and solicit their participation,” RLSP national general secretary and spokesman Fazal Imam Mallik said.
However, the Left parties were in complete darkness about it. “We have no information about it. We will discuss it, when we are invited,” state CPI(ML) secretary Kunal said.
“We have not been approached so far,” state CPI secretariat member Vijay Narayan Mishra said, adding: “But our considered view is that all like-minded parties should come together to defeat the BJP, because the economic policies its government at the Centre has been pursuing are destructive and its political moves are dangerous for the country.”
Apparently, the Left parties are favourably disposed towards the grand alliance’s move to come together in the name of the death anniversary function of Lohia. The rallying round of the grand alliance partners at this juncture is being also considered significant, because it would provide an opportunity to them to gear up after their demolition and near political paralysis by the NDA partners — JD(U), BJP and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) — in the parliamentary elections. Further, the state assembly elections are due in October-November next year.
Curiously, the grand alliance partners appeared to be incapacitated to lift themselves up, as their lead party RJD is virtually in a disarray, because its top leaders Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi have not been showing any tangible signs of succeeding in improving the ongoing brinkmanship between their two sons Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, observers feel.
The RJD’s rank and file also appeared to be worried about it. For, while Tejashwi carries in himself the gravitas of the leader of opposition in the state assembly, Tej Pratap has been revelling in acting out the theatrical roles of “priest, god Krishna and sorcerer” that together downgrade the party’s image and also nullify the impact of its leadership and Tejashwi on people, they maintained.