Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar who have known each other since their days as student leaders in the 1970s were seen Thursday warmly shaking hands inside the Bihar Vidhan Sabha premises.
State parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, who convened a meeting of the JD(U) legislative party, downplayed the absence of "two or three MLAs," attributing it to "unavoidable circumstances about which they had given prior information." He emphasised that the absentees would be present in the assembly during the floor test.