This refers to the ongoing tussle between Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and his former political mentor Nitish Kumar who had been instrumental in crowning him for the post. Such a tussle is not new where persons, after being crowned to high posts, the king-makers anticipate them to behave like rubber stamps, but they actually, become trouble-makers for them.
Perhaps, its time, when the king-makers be replaced by democratically elected members. Prime Minister/Chief Minister, Speaker and Deputy Speaker should be simultaneously elected by secret and compulsory votes of all members of the lok Sabha on nominations signed by at least 34 per cent members. The losing person may be declared as the leader of opposition. Members not participating may lose voting rights in lok Sabha/State Assembly though retaining membership. Such elected ones may only be removed by a no-confidence motion passed in the same manner but with compulsion to name an alternate leader in the same motion.