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Bihari trumps Bahari

By Sidharth Mishra

The landslide victory for the Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance in the Bihar Assembly polls could be best summed up as an articulate and humble Bihar Chief Minister scoring over an aggressive and at times abrasive Prime Minister Narendra Modi.This is only the second time in the nation’s political history that a Prime Minister has been trumped by a Chief Minister. The other occasion being when Jyoti Basu had shown Rajiv Gandhi his place in the 1987 West Bengal Assembly polls.
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Walking into a bovine trap

By Sidharth Mishra
With five-phase voting for the Bihar assembly elections coming to a close, the whole controversy around beef should end. The hullabaloo started with the ban on the sale of meat in Maharashtra during a Jain festival. It soon went on to gain gargantuan proportions with the lynching of one Akhlaq in Dadri for allegedly killing a cow and storing its meat. The hullabaloo took yet another turn in the absolute fracas created near the Kerala House canteen, located in the heart of the national capital, as certain religious reactionaries had raised a misinformed hue and cry over the sale of delicacies made of buffalo meat.
Precious airtime was spent on discussing the matter, complete with both scholarly and stupid discourses. While scholastic giant like Romila Thapar and DN Jha put forth very articulate arguments in defence of beef eating, they were countered by right-wing cacophony with half-literates masquerading as intellectuals. In the political arena, Lalu Prasad Yadav first claimed that even Hindus ate beef. However, he quickly withdrew the comment realising that the cow was a breadwinner for many in his community.
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Process of political Sanskritisation

By Sidharth Mishra
The entry of a tantric, a dog and a few pigeons and the shift in the focus of the ongoing assembly poll campaign in Bihar from development and caste to occult marks a paradigm shift in the state’s politics and society. It’s after a long time that the image of a non-BJP leader seeking the indulgence of a Hindu priest, rather a holy man, has emerged in the public domain.  
The poll campaign in Bihar two months back had started on an unbelievable note with both the main political gladiators – the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and Nitish Kumar’s Grand Alliance talking of development as their prime agenda. However, as the campaign progressed, its real nature got unveiled. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) as Rashtriya Jadu Tona Dal, the campaign has come to its “pettiest” stage.
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Modi’s charisma versus Bihar BJP

By Sidharth Mishra

Two chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party recently completed their first year in office – Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana and Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra. It’s customary for chief ministers to address the media on achieving such a milestone. Khattar courted controversy in the interview he gave to the Indian Express, where he did not make politically palatable remarks on the issue of eating beef. This remark even got him an invite from party chief Amit Shah for an in-person dressing down.
Fadnavis conducted himself better, channel hopping and giving interviews to newspapers but at the same time effectively either skirting tricky issues bothering his government or answering them with ample caution. Your reporter was there at one such television show with Maharashtra’s young chief minister where he gave a very queer answer to a question regarding his stature.
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JP as arbitrator in Bihar polls

By Sidharth Mishra

Jayaprakash Narayan (JP), the charismatic Socialist leader, led the most momentous democratic movement post-Independence. The movement first led to the imposition of Emergency by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 and then her ouster from office following defeat in the 1977 Lok Sabha polls. Jayaprakash was in his seventies and poor health when he came out of retirement to lead what was largely a youth movement against the government of the day.
This movement had maximum impact in two states – Gujarat and Bihar. In Gujarat, the movement was organised under the aegis of Nav Nirman Yuvak Samiti and it largely protested against the prevailing issues of price rise and unemployment among the youth. With support from Morarji Desai and Jayaprakash Narayan, the movement succeeded in first the dismissal of Chimanbhai Patel government and then the dissolution of the state assembly, forcing fresh polls in the state.
A similar youth movement took roots in Bihar
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As Bihar votes, Lalu regains campaign centrestage

By Sidharth Mishra

Bihar Assembly polls have never witnessed such spotlight since Independence. In fact not since 1987, when Rajiv Gandhi went campaigning in West Bengal with the slogan of ‘Nutan Bengal’, has any state Assembly election seen a duel between the sitting Chief Minister of the state and the ruling Prime Minister of the country. 
Jyoti Basu gave Rajiv Gandhi a bloody nose, which marked the beginning of a decline for the charismatic leader. And now, in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has locked himself in a similar battle with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.
With campaigning concluding on Saturday for the first of five-phase polls for the 243 seats, an apparent difference between the script of West Bengal polls of 1987 and Bihar polls of 2015 is coming to the fore.
The battle of Bihar is increasingly coming to be seen as a fight between Modi and erstwhile Bihar CM and debarred to contest leader Lalu Prasad Yadav. ‘Bade Bhai’ (elder brother) to his new found poll ally Nitish Kumar, Lalu has come to acquire a position where he suits scripts of both the contesting alliances.
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Voter divided between head & heart

By Sidharth Mishra

In a week’s time, Bihar will begin the process of electing members to the new state assembly. Politicians and presspersons have variously reasoned to call this election historical, as it’s going to make or mar the fortune of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A victory for National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would strengthen Modi’s position in New Delhi and further emaciate the principal opposition Congress and its beleaguered leader Rahul Gandhi.
A defeat for the NDA in Bihar would mean the end of the road for Modi’s agenda of social and economic reforms. It would also allow the Congress and other Opposition parties to sharpen their attacks against the Prime Minister on the floor of the house. It would mean bad news for India.
However, bad news for India need not necessarily be bad news for Bihar. 
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Evolution of Indian Media Post 1947

President of CRDJ, Mr Sidharth Mishra was invited by the Political Science Association of Shyamlal College, Delhi University on 1 October 2015 to deliver a talk on the topic Evolution of Indian Media Post 1947 – An Overview . Mr Mishra was welcomed by Dr RN Kar, principal, Shyamlal College and Dr Neena Shirish, head of the the department of political science, Shyamlal College. Speaking on the occasion Mr Mishra said that with several unresolved issues of social empowerment, models of economic development and role in the international forums will create ample space for public debate and scope for media, thus in the coming times Media will play different roles of being messenger of news to maker of public opinion to the interventionist in matters of public policy. In his address to a packed house of political science students, he said that the demand on the Indian media would grow with time like the need for more intensive reporting, closer to grassroots. 

Though there is regional media, the mainstream media too would be required to move into the interiors as the craving for information will grow, said Mr Mishra adding that the discerning users would ask authentic information and with such demand, the Indian news industry would move into a new realm with better quality productions. Dr Kar in introductory note said since media had come to play an important role in our lives, it was important to know how it functions.           For Photos Click Here
(Consulting Editor, Millennium Post)
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