Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav today hugged and celebrated as their Grand Alliance scored a spectacular victory in the Bihar election.
Here are the key quotes of Nitish and Lalu
Nitish: It is clear now that on the national level, people want a powerful opposition.(Live: Bihar Results 2015)
Nitish: People have completely rejected efforts to divide them.
Lalu: Bihar results will have long-term impact on national politics. Bihar has given a new direction to the entire country.
Lalu: Will tour the country and create a people's movement against the Modi government. Will start a movement against forces dividing the nation.(Bihar election Results: Full coverage)
Nitish: All sections of the society have voted for us - the Dalit, the backwards, the upper castes, all have voted for the Grand Alliance.
Nitish: We were congratulated by the PM and leaders from all over the country. Despite what happened during elections, we want to move ahead in a positive way. Hope Centre will help us.
Lalu: PM congratulated Nitishji. It was nice. But I don't know if he did it from the heart.
Lalu: This election was not a problem for us, but we will cause problems in Delhi.
Lalu: There was an attempt to communalise these elections. But people of Bihar defeated this attempt.
Lalu: After this victory we will proceed to Delhi. We will first go to Varanasi (PM Modi's constituency).
