![]() ![]() At 9.30 pm, the BJP hinted at backing JDU, by 10.30 pm, Sushil Modi of BJP presented a letter of support to JD(U), at 1 am Nitish Kumar was invited to form the government, and he was sworn in as CM by 10 am.īJP 2.0, under Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, functions on the fulcrum of two critical principles - yield no space and take no prisoners. On July 26, 2017, Nitish Kumar resigned and called off the JDU alliance with RJD-Congress at around 6.30 pm - the reason was the refusal of Tejaswi Yadav to quit despite corruption charges.īy 7.10 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had congratulated Nitish Kumar for his stand against corruption. Stealth and speed was the calling card in Operation Bihar too. Of course this is not the first overnight coup planned and executed by BJP. The chefs from Delhi and from Mumbai, from the Congress and the Shiv Sena, involved in cooking the dum-pukht version of a political alliance were literally caught napping. The fact that NCP chief Sharad Pawar, dubbed Maharashtra’s Machiavelli, claimed that he came to know only when bewildered MLAs from his party called to inform him is proof of the preparation that went into the overnight coup. ![]() In the next seven hours the governor was convinced, President’s rule was lifted at 5.47 am, and by 7.45 am Fadnavis and Pawar were sworn in as chief minister and deputy chief minister. To paraphrase lines from history, the tryst with power began around midnight, when India was asleep and the BJP cracked a deal with Ajit Pawar.
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