Lalu Yadav, who had called Nitish Kumar a ‘paltu’ (turncoat) after his sudden switch, told, “(J)ab aayenge toh dekhenge, khula hi rehta hai darwaaza… (When he comes, we will see… door is always open.”
Apparently dissatisfied by its previous OBC-EBC leadership experiment, BJP has now trusted Samrat Choudhary & Vijay Sinha, who had been at forefront of taking on Nitish as Oppn leaders
In the last assembly polls in 2020, the BJP had emerged as the second-largest party with 74 seats. The RJD, which was the largest, bagged just 75 seats. The JDU's number, however, crashed to 43 from 71 in 2015.