Bihar politics: Is the Congress to be blamed for Nitish Kumar s departure from the Opposition s INDIA bloc? The JD(U) returned to the BJP-led NDA on Sunday and is set to form a new Bihar government by the evening.
Nitish Kumar s flip-flop in Bihar: It was only around a month-and-a-half years ago that the JD(U) chief had allied with the RJD, ditching the BJP-led NDA. How key leaders of the BJP, the RJD and the JD(U) had reacted back then and how their reaction was different/same after recent developments.
Amid a political crisis in Bihar, BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Choubey participated in a foundation laying ceremony with CM Nitish Kumar, stating that whatever happens will be according to "God s wish." Nitish Kumar and Choubey laid the foundation for the second phase of development works in Buxar s Brahmpur. Speculations of an alliance breakdown between JD(U) and RJD have surfaced.
The rift between JD(U) and RJD became evident when Kumar attended the high tea ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Patna on the occasion of the Republic Day but his deputy Tejashwi Yadav gave it a miss.
Bihar politics: As of now, the RJD is the single-largest party in the Bihar Assembly. The Bihar Assembly has a total of 243 members. What if JD(U) plans to pull out of the alliance with the RJD? Here s what the party-wise composition in the Bihar Assembly looks like: