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16/09/2010 Nitish on blog: Development will take precedence over caste
Patna,(BiharTimes): Writing on nitishspeaks.blogspot.com Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar hoped that “development will take precedence over caste in Bihar poll.” He is of the view that caste factor would be relegated to the back seat for the first time in the coming assembly election in Bihar. The majority of the people would rise above narrow caste considerations to vote for development-centric politics, he felt. At the very outset he suggested surveying agencies being hired by political parties not to overlook this fact when they set out to compile data for their pre-poll assessment prior to the elections. He wrote that this trend was already discernible during the parliamentary elections last year when the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 32 out of the total 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. The results have indicated that development-oriented politics has replaced caste factor. For the first time majority of the people had exercised their voting rights not on the basis of the caste of a candidate but on the development work initiated by the state government, he added. He is hopeful of the role women voters would play in the coming election as they now have their own identity. Earlier it was generally believed that women would vote for the same candidate that their male relatives would ask them to. They had remained parts of the caste system over the years. He attributed this change to the 50 per cent reservation in the panchayat. The chief minister also expects a positive response from the youths in the election.
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