Many eyebrows were raised in Bihar on Monday as news broke of a meeting between Communist Party of India's rising star Kanhaiya Kumar and Ashok Choudhary, a minister and key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The RJD supremo also said that Nitish should cover his body with saffron cloths and chant Jai Shri Ram.
Eleven days after Nitish Kumar government declared 28 of 38 districts as drought hit, he announced in his speech that remaining 10 districts have been declared as drought hit."Now entire Bihar has been declared drought hit in view of scanty rainfall" Nitish Kumar said.
The rift between the Bharatiya Janata Party and ally Janata Dal-United widened on Sunday with Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi pulling out of functions to be addressed by Nitish Kumar to protest the return of flood relief money to Gujarat, after which the chief minister cancelled his programme.
The benefit the ordinary person gets from unchanged fares is more than neutralised by the lack of service quality like the trains running on time.
After sweeping Bihar, Nitish Kumar tells CNN-IBN in an interview that people's faith in good governance has been established in the state and that he has never eyed the Prime Minister's chair.
Tyagi, however, added his party was imposing no condition on the BJP over the issue of Cabinet berths.
Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, the JD-U spokesperson accused him of "not being serious" in fighting corruption.
The two leaders, reports say, discussed the charges against Tejashwi.
Lalu Yadav's party said that it was only in Bihar that the CM had a case under Section 302 filed against him.
Several leaders aren't happy with the chief minister's decision to walk out of the Grand Alliance and join hands with the BJP.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad took out a march on the main roads in Bihar capital on Sunday to protest against the Modi government's failure to bring black money.
Leaders of a number of opposition parties on Tuesday met twice after which they decided to put up a united fight for the post.
Modi also announced Rs 2 lakh aid to the kin of those who died in the deluge.
BJP ally says even after using political might, money and various announcements, the party could not even win 60 seats in the Bihar elections.
The Janata Dal-United will elect a new leader on Sunday, party chief Sharad Yadav said, a day after Nitish Kumar stepped down as the Bihar chief minister.
The CM knocked doors of 10 households in Pachim Darwaza.
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