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Siddaramaiah, Nitish Kumar and the final bow of their socialist politics
The exit of Siddaramaiah from the post of Karnataka Chief Minister into what could be a political sunset has a major echo with what happened with Janata Dal (U) leader Nitish Kumar, not just in exit routes prescribed but in the fact that their exits also signal the death of a particular political lexicon of socialist politics. In 1994, Nitish Kumar held a Kurmi sammelan and formed the Samata Party, carving out the non-Yadav OBC “Luv-Kush” vote bank. In Bihar, the BJP got its first-ever Chief Minister with Nitish Kumar’s exit, with little chance of the Luv-Kush vote bank going away from the NDA in any intact way.
