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Tough road ahead for BJP in Bihar elections
The Sunday Guardian
|September 28, 2025
Fault lines inside the Bihar BJP are coming into sharper focus ahead of the Assembly elections, with senior leaders complaining of their deliberate sidelining and the party's traditional forward-caste base showing signs of erosion.
As the party grapples with faction feuds, caste disaffection, anti-incumbency and corruption allegations, it is banking on denying tickets to sitting MLAs, fielding heavyweight leaders and rolling out welfare schemes—dismissed as “re-wadi” by critics—to blunt the damage and retain power.
Former Union Minister R.K. Singh and ex-minister Ashwini Choubey have openly alleged that the state leadership-comprising those they call "imported" leaders such as party Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Sanjay Jaiswal, former state president and present Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, and present party president Dilip Jaiswal-are "conspiring" against them.
The former two leaders are referred to as "imported" by a section within the party because they were earlier part of the RJD and have not risen in the BJP through the traditional Sangh route.
According to both Singh and Choubey, who belong to the Rajput and Brahmin communities, respectively, repeated complaints from party workers over the past year against the “anti-forward” policies have been ignored by the central leadership.
This story is from the September 28, 2025 edition of The Sunday Guardian.
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