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New Delhi, October 6 (IANS) “Misery”, famous playwright William Shakespeare wrote, “Introduce a man with strange bedfellow.”
He used this phrase in ‘The Tempest’ to describe the desperate state of Trinakulo, where he looks strange to ride on a stormy season, and shared a cloak with smell.
In politics, the word “Strange Bedfellow” is often associated with parties with opposite beliefs or philosophy that come together to tide political storms or to take the party more powerful, or popular.
In the late 1980s, the National Front led VP Singh-a group of several parties-reached an agreement with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on one side, and on the other hand communist parties, not to fight against each other in most parliamentary seats.
Understanding was not on an ideological front, but to keep the Congress – from where the first lion was broken – from power.
By the turn of the century, however, through changing times and political equations, many of these parties transferred their loyalty.
Allegedly, former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtra Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was once a convenor of a steering committee, said that Jayaprakash Narayan himself was formed to coordinate anti-allegation protests.
On several occasions, reminiscent of those days, Lalu Yadav has spoken about his imprisonment under the dangerous maintenance of the Security Act (MISA) for more than 15 months.
But in an article that he was later co-authors with a journalist, he chose to use the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to use his memory of those days, who described the Emergency on 25 June as an emergency as “Black Day”.
Because, the same party that put him in jail in the 70s, and which he later defeated, in 1990, to become the Chief Minister of Bihar, is now in an alliance with RJD.
This time the rival is the same BJP who once agreed to lend hands on the Congress Anti-Congress platform.
Similarly, the left front came on a large scale in West Bengal on an emergency-antiti-earrgency wave of 1977.
Since then there has been a clash with the Congress in the state, which is a pioneer for widespread deaths and destruction in the 80s and 90s.
But both parties are now a coalition partner against the ruling Tramul Congress in West Bengal and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar.
Even in Kerala, communists are leading a coalition government, trying to top it with the Congress -led opposition group.
In addition, the leftist parties withdrew support on a nuclear deal with the US to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Manmohan Singh in their second term.
Again, in Bihar, Another Constituent of the opposition alliance of Mahagathbandhan is Pashupati Paras, The Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party President.
He was the Minister of Union Food Processing Industries in the NDA government till he resigned in 2021 to 2024.
Now, he has entered the Mahagatdanan alliance to seek seats and support in the upcoming Bihar elections in November.
Despite the underlying contradictions and contradictory political ideas and philosophy, the only thread that puts them together is a common objective to oppose the BJP.
In the upcoming sport of a political music chair, Telegu Desam Party and Janata Dal-United- except for a brief period- between very few parties, politically continue to oppose the Congress.
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