Samikhsya Bureau
There are two erstwhile leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party those who have a left a trail of suspense for over last six months. There was a time that they let others to know through the media that, they both are aiming towards the Biju Janata Dal. For some time it was encased in prolonged procrastination by both afraid of any rejection.
However, for Bijoy Mohapatra, the wait was self-annihilating and staying a fence-sitter even after quitting the BJP, for him the time was ticking away as the polls were very near. There came the question of political exigency and somehow a faction in the BJP went overtime to persuade Mohapatra back to the BJP. The reason was obvious. The BJP or a candidate of the BJP wanted Bijay Mohapatra to play as catalyst given his organisational hold in that area. Then what happened, is history. Mohapatra had to swallow the pride and came back to the saffron camp.
Now it may be a testing time for him to clarify himself before the people who had rejected him thrice while fighting for the Assembly seats in 2004, 2009 and 2014.
For Dilip Ray, who is a big business man turned politician, politics always remained an auxiliary tool to enhance his position. He gave the clear signal that he may join the BJD and had a round of discussion with the people in Naveen Niwas .
More often than not, Ray did show a touch-me-not ishness kind of attitude for some time, now to post a few lines in favour of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi . That stands to say that Ray has shown a typical turn-coat symptom and a politician bereft of conviction.
In a nutshell, it shows that both are deprived of the relevance that once they used to have. And it has become customary that in politics ‘spit and lick it back’ is an accepted virtue.
