Calling him ‘paltu ram’ or weathervane won’t hurt Nitish Kumar. He’s brazen beyond embarrassment. While Kumar’s opportunism is condemnable, his enablers are to blame too. The BJP today and Congress-RJD yesterday. Bihar’s politics is stuck in a hopeless morass for 75 years. This only pushes its people deeper in it.
Nitish Kumar’s opportunism is condemnable but his enablers are also at fault. It’s BJP
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