JD-U supremo Nitish Kumar's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, following the BJP's by-election loss in Bankipur, signals potential shifts and discussions within the Bihar political landscape.
Key Points
- JD-U leader Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
- The meeting followed the BJP's defeat in the Bankipur assembly by-election.
- Poll strategist Prashant Kishor won the Bankipur seat, a traditional BJP stronghold.
- Nitish Kumar recently resigned as Bihar CM, leading to a BJP leader taking the top post.
- Bihar is currently governed by a coalition of BJP and JD-U.
Janata Dal-United supremo and former chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day after the BJP lost Patna's Bankipur assembly seat in a by-election.
Kumar, a Rajya Sabha MP, was accompanied by JD-U leaders -- Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Rajya Sabha MP and national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha -- in his meeting with the prime minister.
"Rajya Sabha MP Shri @NitishKumar Ji met PM @narendramodi earlier today," the prime minister's office said in a post on 'X'.
Key Political Developments In Bihar
Kumar said he paid a courtesy call on the prime minister at his office room in the Parliament House complex in New Delhi.
The by-election at Bankipur, considered a BJP bastion, was necessitated after BJP president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat following his election to Rajya Sabha after he assumed charge as party chief.
Poll strategist-turned-politician and Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor defeated BJP's Neeraj Kumar by a margin of 19,324 votes.
Kumar, the ten-time chief minister of Bihar, resigned from the state's top post in April, following which, for the first time, a BJP leader, Samrat Choudhary, assumed charge as chief minister.
The BJP and JD-U are running a coalition government in Bihar.
