Kailashpati Mishra returning from Nawada
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Nawada, the birthplace of Shribabu and the workplace of JP, the father of the entire revolution, is included among the backward aspirational districts of the country in terms of development. Elections for Nawada Lok Sabha seat are to be held in the first phase on April 19. All the candidates are united day and night. BJP candidate Vivek Thakur from NDA and Shravan Kushwaha of RJD from Grand Alliance are working on special strategy to get the support of voters. Claims and counterclaims of victory are being made from both sides. Independent candidates and candidates from parties like BSP are also in the fray, making the struggle triangular. The atmosphere is calm, only a few election campaign vehicles are visible. No flag or banner is visible anywhere. Voters are also silent. When pressed about elections, they give arguments of caste, community and existence. The battle of sand and gravel is also involved in the election battle here.
Election discussion in tea shop, everyone has their own arguments
Election discussion is going on at the tea shop at Prajatantra Chowk in Nawada. Sudhir Kumar sitting here says that there is not much enthusiasm regarding the elections. Here elections are being fought on the basis of caste, community and existence. Development is not an issue. While NDA candidate Modi is talking about Naam Kevalam, the Grand Alliance candidate is asking for votes on the work of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. Rajesh Singh, who is drinking tea, says – In Nawada, victory and defeat are decided only on the basis of caste and caste equation. BJP candidate is from Bhumihar community. He is engaged in uniting Bhumihars, other upper castes, extremely backward and Dalit voters.
RJD candidate comes from Kushwaha class. There are also a fair number of Kushwaha voters here and they are trying to add backward and extremely backward people to the MY equation. Mohan Yadav, who is sipping tea next to him, says that here there is a fight for the existence of a particular class. There is also a fight for rights over sand and gravel. Here, the Yadav voters of the Grand Alliance will not let anyone else win except Yadav. With the entry of Rajvallabh’s brother in the elections, the contest has become triangular. After about an hour, the campaign vehicle of an independent candidate passes by on the road. The sound comes from the loudspeaker. Voters have to vote thoughtfully, their brother Vinod Yadav has to win..
No one discusses the closed sugar mill
When Sukhdev, who is threshing wheat in Warisaliganj, is asked about the Lok Sabha elections, he says – Babu, what do we have to do with elections? They are farmers, they work hard day and night only to be able to survive somewhere. After a lot of probing, they say that the issue of closed Warisaliganj sugar mill should be discussed in the elections, but it is not in the agenda of any party. Why would it even happen? When voting is based on casteism. He told that if you ask BJP people, they talk about Kisan Samman Nidhi. There is something different about the other party.
Kamal Verma, who works in furniture in Hisua, says that right now the issue is only caste and community, but Modi and development are also big factors, which can outweigh caste and community in the last moments. At the same time, Sunil Yadav says that the Yadav voters here are with Lalu ji.
RJD candidate is facing challenge from his own people
Everything is not normal in Nawada Lok Sabha elections. RJD candidate Shravan Kushwaha has to fight not only with the opposition but also with his own people. Rajeshwar Ram of Nawada says that Rajvallabh’s MLA wife Vibha Devi, another MLA, is moving away from the party line and is busy campaigning in favor of Vinod Yadav. He said that Vined Yadav’s flag banner can be seen on the auto rickshaws plying on the roads of Nawada, which mostly belong to a particular caste. At the same time, a group of youth is roaming with Bhojpuri singer Gunjan Singh. He comes from the caste of BJP candidate Vivek Thakur. However, Kumar Sarvesh, also of Bhumihar caste, said that Gunjan has no special effect.
There are eight candidates in the electoral fray
A total of eight candidates are in the fray in Nawada. There are 20 lakh 6124 voters in this Lok Sabha constituency, out of which 10 lakh 45 thousand 788 are male and 962186 are female voters. There are also 150 third genders. There are six assembly seats under Nawada Lok Sabha constituency, out of which three have RJD MLAs. There is one MLA each from BJP, Congress and JDU. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, LJP’s Chandan Singh of the NDA alliance defeated RJD candidate Vibha Devi by a margin of 1.5 lakh votes. For the last three times, BJP or BJP supported candidates have been winning the elections. In 2009, Bhola Prasad won the election, while in 2014, Giriraj Singh won from here.
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