Bihar CM candidate : BJP engineers guessing game

Senior BJP leader and home minister Rajnath Singh`s statement that the BJP will soon take a call on whether to project someone as the CM candidate or not in the coming Bihar elections has started a guessing game fuelling speculations that it may not be very wise to put PM Modi`s popularity directly on test in Bihar, of the all places. But the Delhi experiment continues to haunt the BJP feel observers. In the initial stages of Delhi assembly polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal challenged PM Modi to name the CM candidate or declare his own intent to resign the top job to take over as Delhi CM. The strategy worked and all in a hurry BJP adopted Kejriwal`s movement days comrade in arms Kiran Bedi as the party`s official candidate. Political analysts attributed Kiran`s choice to the multiplicity of aspirants within the party. Rest is history.