Nitish Kumar’s political journey has become a tale of flip-flops
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will replace ministers from alliance partner Lalu Yadav’s party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) with faces from the BJP tomorrow, sources told NDTV. The BJP and Nitish Kumar – who will likely take oath as Bihar Chief Minister again – have also finalised a seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha election due in three months.
Amid the crisis, both the Congress and RJD called for meetings of their legislators. But Congress denies any connection to the evolving political scenario and claims that the meeting is to discuss preparations for Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’.
Nitish Kumar’s political journey, once synonymous with stability and development, has become a tale of flip-flops and realignments
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Amid political uncertainty in Bihar and speculation that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could again join hands with BJP, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday.
Chirag Paswan said he kept “his concerns over Bihar” before the BJP leaders in the meeting held at the residence of Amit Shah.
Amid speculation that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will cross over to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) again, Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam said that JD(U) chief has lost his credibility.
“Nitish Kumar has lost his credibility. He and his decisions are responsible for this. Because of the deeds of Janata Dal (United) and its leaders, the INDIA bloc which was a new hope for the opposition, seems to be in danger. Congress should consider contesting the elections alone in the whole country. Such a huge battle cannot be fought by relying on crutches,” Krishnam told ANI.
With speculations revolving around Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s possible exit from the Mahagathbandhan alliance in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP and daughter of party’s chief Lalu Yadav, Misa Bharti said on Saturday that she had ‘no idea’ about what had been going on in Bihar.
RJD is an ally in the mega alliance in Bihar, with 79 MLAs in the state legislative assembly.
“I have no idea right now..whatever is going on in the news that is only thing, other than that nobody has said anything…whenever RJD comes to power, we have worked for the people of Bihar and we will keep working for them in the future also,” Bharti told reporters in Bihar’s Patna.
Nitish Kumar To Replace RJD Ministers With BJP Faces: Sources
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will replace ministers from alliance partner Lalu Yadav’s party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) with faces from the BJP tomorrow, sources told NDTV. The BJP and Nitish Kumar – who will likely take oath as Bihar Chief Minister again – have also finalised a seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha election due in three months.
Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar is the initiator of the INDIA bloc and his return to the BJP-led NDA will harm his image, senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said on Saturday.
He also asserted that if Kumar has any grievances, they will be addressed. “The RJD and all of us are ready to find a solution,” Rawat said.
Mr Kumar had joined hands with the RJD in August 2022 after he severed ties with the BJP. He, thereafter, embarked on a drive to bring together all parties across the country to take on the BJP and that culminated in the formation of opposition bloc INDIA.
JD(U) leaders rush to Nitish Kumar’s residence amid turmoil
Top leaders of the JD(U) on Saturday rushed to the residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the party president, amid strong indications that he was planning to quit the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan’ and revert to the BJP-led NDA.
Leaders like former national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh, ‘Lalan’, minister and national general secretary Sanjay Kumar Jha and state legislative council chairman Devesh Chandra Thakur reached 1, Anney Marg, the CM’s official residence here, around the same time when a meeting of legislators of the RJD, the JD(U)’s current ally, was underway.
