PATNA, Sept. 26 -- Bihar rural works department minister Dr Ashok Choudhary may have tried to put up a brave front by serving defamation notice to the Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, second in the last four months, but political analysts say "the attack on the JD-U minister and a few BJP leaders on corruption might actually be part of a larger design", which would gradually unravel. "Kishor has rubbed where it hurts the most to JD-U - corruption - by targeting a leader who was known for his striking proximity with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, which may not have gone down well with a section within the party. With one stone, he has been able to make a ripple in the JD-U water, which hitherto appeared calm despite challenges of rising ambitions to be no. 2 in the party," admitted a senior JD-U leader. Kishor did the same with the BJP, carefully choosing his targets at the top of party's state hierarchy to expose the fissures within the Bihar unit, which banks heavily on the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, and evoking a similar response as the JD-U, with a senior party leader seeking clarification from the targeted leaders on corruption charges. "Whether Kishor's strategy will ultimately help resurrect the fortunes of his party in its debut election, only time will tell, but he has at least been successful in dispelling the perception of being a B-team of the BJP for the time being by relentlessly training his guns on the other side to draw eyeballs. In case of Ashok Choudhary, he is aware of Nitish Kumar's image-conscious mindset and the impact corruption charges could have. He is going in for a methodical disruptive and attacking politics to find a footing for his new party in a state where elections have been mostly polarised and where he is not expected to achieve great shake on his own," said social analyst Prof NK Choudhary. Under pressure from within the JD-U on corruption charges, Choudhary had no option but to respond, but a Jan Suraaj leader "termed it feeble and without substance to answer the questions raised by Kishor". Kishor himself made light of the defamation notice, saying Choudhary was merely "making rigmaroles". "He speaks in English on the corruption charges so that most people could not understand what he replied, while giving a perception that he answered. The fact is that he has answered nothing and just trying to mislead," Kishor told a gathering. A Jan Suraaj leader said that a defamation notice was not enough to silence Kishor, as he had documents to substantiate his charges and those documents might have reached him with the help of people within the JD-U. Kishor was also quick to appreciate JD-U's stand of seeking clarification from Choudhary. JD-U spokesman and MLC Neeraj Kumar had asked the JD-U minister to respond to the allegations of Kishor citing Nitish Kumar's spotless image and the past trend when the then Deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was asked to come clean on allegations of corruption. "When Tejashwi did not adhere, the country knows the turn of events thereafter," Neeraj had said, pointing to break in alliance and the seriousness of the matter for the party. Choudhary's aide and Bihar Citizens' Council general secretary Chotu Singh, however, came out as the lone JD-U face to hit back at Kishor, asking him to disclose sources of his own income for assets he has created and describing him as an "event manager who could only mislead and hoodwink the masses through his social media teams, but will fail to open account in election". "He has tried to malign a Dalit's son, while he is himself not above board. He got a taste of his own strategy in the by-polls when his party lost deposit on two of the four seats and was no where in race. Even his rally at the Gandhi Maidan was a big failure. Aware of the fate of his party, he is attacking established leaders to gain cheap publicity," he added. Former director of AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies DM Diwakar said that he was convinced Kishor's "target politics" was part of a larger gameplan in a state, where BJP has always found it tough in the Assembly elections and does not have the wherewithal to fight on its own. "Politics is often beyond the apparent. In politics, it is quite common having one's eye on something while targeting something else entirely. He may appear to be going after the NDA state leaders, but that also seems to be part of a strategy. I find Kishor's attack on the JD-U also similar to the one witnessed from Chirag in 2020," he added. Diwakar said that the hoarding in front of the BJP office, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on two sides and Nitish Kumar in the middle was a pointer to the BJP strategy to win Bihar, which may be to squeeze JD-U for an upper hand without getting exposed to the extent of 2020....