With
Vajpayee’s exit, the country was once again back to the question: ‘Who’ll be
the next Prime Minister?’The non-Congress, non-BJP parties was trying hard to
find a Prime Minister. Laloo Yadav wanted the top job so desperately that he
virtually gave up chief ministership and Patna to camp in Delhi, regardless of
the city’s climate. But with only 20 MPs from Bihar his claim was considerably
weakened.The Janata Dal had done much better in Karnataka; besides Laloo had a
big opponent in Mulayam Singh Yadav who could not let another Yadav beat him to
the prime ministership. Mulayam campaigned with the Left, Harkishen Singh
Surjeet in the main, to sabotage Laloo. He is scam tainted (the first fodder
scam disclosures had begun to come in the last days of the Rao Raj), Mulayam
told the Left, besides he has treated the Communists with disdain in Bihar.He
even split the CPI.
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