Congress MP Digvijaya Singh while speaking to ANI on January 28 commented on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar joining the NDA government. He said, "We never expected that he (Nitish Kumar) would take such steps because he always used to say that he would die but never unite with them... If he wanted to become the convenor (of INDIA alliance), we would have made him. We even offered him but he only denied the post, then what was the reason for taking such a step."