Speaking at a rally in Purnea district, where his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' entered on Tuesday, Gandhi said that Nitish Kumar’s recent return to the BJP-led NDA was prompted by the fact that he did not want to carry out a caste survey.
While AAP and Congress take on BJP in Chandigarh mayoral polls, the alliance will look to send out a message through a show of strength in Bihar’s Purnea, and hold crucial seat-sharing talks in Maharashtra.
Nitish Kumar has been one of the key faces of the Opposition's INDIA bloc and was at the forefront of forging the united front to take on the formidable BJP. A flip-flop at this stage will leave the INDIA bloc red-faced
Nitish’s move to dump Mahagathbandhan to cross over to NDA to become CM for a record 9th term marks the fourth time in just over a decade that he has switched sides
While he started out with Samata Party, co-floated by Nitish, Choudhary has done his share of political wandering, but in recent years emerged as the JD(U) leader's foremost BJP critic, even when the two were in alliance.