Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday appealed for calm in violence-marred Madhubani district. The state government had acted promptly and ordered a judicial probe into the violence and police firing on Friday in the district. It also transferred senior administrative and police officials, Kumar and Modi said in a joint appeal.
The controversy over a newspaper advertisement featuring Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi deepened with the state police carrying out searches at the office of an ad agency in Patna on Sunday.
Celebrations broke out as the Grand Alliance was all set for a thumping victory in the Bihar polls.
Nationalism, Hindutva, and war on corruption, not growth, will define Modi's politics until 2019.
If Nitish Kumar did not make his choice now, he could not re-enter the NDA later on and hope to be counted in as a prime ministerial possibility whenever the chance arises, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The clearest interpretation of the November 8 mandate is that the backwards, Dalits and minorities, and a huge proportion of women cutting across caste and class, displayed massive consolidation to the extent that despite chipping of votes by the Left Front, by the Third Front and by the BSP, Mahagathbandhan candidates won, and in many cases by huge margins,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
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