He was suffering from breathing trouble and had developed pneumonia. The 72-year-old RJD chief, convicted in fodder scam cases, was previously undergoing treatment at RIMS, Ranchi.
In 1990, when then BJP president L.K. Advani was carrying out his rath yatra unbridled, it was Lalu Yadav as CM who had dared to stop him from entering Bihar.
The JDU, too, like the BJP, believes in the politics of empowerment and Nitish Kumar as Bihar’s CM has worked on the vision of ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’.
On surface, it appears all parties outside the NDA camp are ready to contest polls under the grand alliance, but their individual ambitions speak otherwise.
Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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