With assembly polls due in 2025 & RJD clamouring for larger role for Tejashwi in Bihar, BJP's decision may make Nitish vulnerable to pressures from his ally.
There's rising speculation of Upendra Kushwaha ‘being in touch’ with BJP, but if Bihar CM Nitish Kumar expels him, JD(U) runs the risk of alienating its Kurmi and Kushwaha votebank.
JD(U), fearing its core voters are shifting to BJP, has demanded a Sita temple in Sitamarhi and hailed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s 'Har Ghar Gangajal' project as a ‘Bhagirathi’ effort.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who snapped ties with the BJP & joined the seven-party opposition 'Mahagathbandhan', made the remark in reply to a query from journalists in Patna.
Deputy CM & RJD leader Tejashwi Singh issued a guideline to party ministers on acceptable behaviour. The list includes not letting supporters touch their feet & being transparent in work.
Speculation about his fate had been rife, especially given that the Rajya Sabha numbers have become a little more evenly stacked ever since Nitish Kumar's exit from the NDA.
BJP hits out at ‘Paltu Ram’ Nitish Kumar as Bihar NDA govt collapses, claims it was BJP that elevated former CM ‘to political heights, made him Union minister, chief minister’.
South Africa is now holding a mirror to the world. It is led by a Black African captain, powered by a diverse group of players, and has just won the WTC and a series in India while sitting atop the Test rankings.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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