Another Chance To Nitish Kumar? What Tejashwi Yadav Told NDTV

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been reduced to the state government's mask, and a handful of BJP leaders are running the government from behind him, Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav told NDTV in an exclusive interview. "The Chief Minister has nothing now. He is just a mask now. A handful of people from the BJP are running the government," he said.

With a year to go for the Bihar Assembly polls, Mr Yadav ruled out any possibility of another tie-up with the Nitish Kumar-led JDU, a former ally known for repeated flip-flops across the political aisle. "There is no point (of a tie-up). We have given him several opportunities. We didn't go to him. He came here. He folded hands before my mother (former CM Rabri Devi). He publicly apologised in Vidhan Sabha. And then he left. Nitish Kumar ji likes no one except himself," he said.