Nitish Returns

Shyam Rajak, a former Minister in the Bihar government and veteran politician, marked a return to Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) on Sunday.

A youth leader from Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) was shot dead late last night when he was returning from a wedding function in Patna, said police.

When it comes to Chirag Paswan versus his uncle Pashupati Paras in Bihar, the BJP has finally picked a side, weeks before the national election. Even if it means upsetting Nitish Kumar, who has returned to the NDA after his latest alliance switch.

Coming down heavily on Bihar Chief Minister after JD(U) returned to the NDA fold recently, RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday said that Nitish Kumar was never abused by his party when he previously broke the alliance with them in 2017.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asserted the BJP-led NDA, to which he returned a few weeks ago, will win all 40 seats of the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

With the JD(U)s re-entry, the NDA's seat tally is back to around 350 seats, close to the 2019 tally of 353. The ruling alliance now needs just 50 more seats to cross the magical mark of 400.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday, their first meeting after the JD(U) chief switched over to the NDA and formed a government in the state along with the BJP.

The BJP took Nitish Kumar into the NDA in the interest of Bihar and it was not a compromise for power, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh said on Monday.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Monday asserted that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's abrupt return to the BJP-led NDA was "good riddance" for the opposition INDIA bloc in which many leaders were now "heaving a sigh of relief".

Nitish Kumar has done it again. He has resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, dumped the Mahagathbandhan with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress, and returned to where he was in July 2022.

As JDU leader Nitish Kumar parts ways with the RJD and returns to the NDA fold, his fifth flip-flop in a decade, his statements after every jump across the political aisle have started doing the rounds.

Bihar Political Crisis: Nitish Kumar today resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, ending his party Janata Dal(United)'s two-year association with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

Nitish Kumar appears set for a second political volte-face in less than three years and is likely to return to an alliance with the BJP today. He has resigned as Bihar Chief Minister to start the process.

With Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's return to the BJP-led NDA imminent, Congress' Bihar in-charge Mohan Prakash on Saturday said this time the people of the state may not consider this an appropriate step.

Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief and a partner of the INDIA bloc, said that there is "no sign" of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a key figure in the Opposition alliance returning to the BJP-led NDA.

Shyam Rajak, a former Minister in the Bihar government and veteran politician, marked a return to Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) on Sunday.

A youth leader from Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) was shot dead late last night when he was returning from a wedding function in Patna, said police.

When it comes to Chirag Paswan versus his uncle Pashupati Paras in Bihar, the BJP has finally picked a side, weeks before the national election. Even if it means upsetting Nitish Kumar, who has returned to the NDA after his latest alliance switch.

Coming down heavily on Bihar Chief Minister after JD(U) returned to the NDA fold recently, RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday said that Nitish Kumar was never abused by his party when he previously broke the alliance with them in 2017.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asserted the BJP-led NDA, to which he returned a few weeks ago, will win all 40 seats of the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

With the JD(U)s re-entry, the NDA's seat tally is back to around 350 seats, close to the 2019 tally of 353. The ruling alliance now needs just 50 more seats to cross the magical mark of 400.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday, their first meeting after the JD(U) chief switched over to the NDA and formed a government in the state along with the BJP.

The BJP took Nitish Kumar into the NDA in the interest of Bihar and it was not a compromise for power, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh said on Monday.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Monday asserted that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's abrupt return to the BJP-led NDA was "good riddance" for the opposition INDIA bloc in which many leaders were now "heaving a sigh of relief".

Nitish Kumar has done it again. He has resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, dumped the Mahagathbandhan with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress, and returned to where he was in July 2022.

As JDU leader Nitish Kumar parts ways with the RJD and returns to the NDA fold, his fifth flip-flop in a decade, his statements after every jump across the political aisle have started doing the rounds.

Bihar Political Crisis: Nitish Kumar today resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, ending his party Janata Dal(United)'s two-year association with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

Nitish Kumar appears set for a second political volte-face in less than three years and is likely to return to an alliance with the BJP today. He has resigned as Bihar Chief Minister to start the process.

With Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's return to the BJP-led NDA imminent, Congress' Bihar in-charge Mohan Prakash on Saturday said this time the people of the state may not consider this an appropriate step.

Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief and a partner of the INDIA bloc, said that there is "no sign" of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a key figure in the Opposition alliance returning to the BJP-led NDA.