Key Points
Nitish Kumar on January 30 last year said he would rather die than go to NDA and a year later, the JD(U) supremo has joined hands with the BJP after resigning from the post of Bihar CM on Sunday, breaking away from Mahagathbandhan government...
The Mandapam at Raj Bhavan is ready for Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar CM for the 9th time...
Notably, it was Nitish Kumar who hosted the first meeting of the opposition parties in Patna which laid the foundation for the formation of INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance)...
"The name of Nitish Kumar deserves to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the number of times he has aligned, dumped and realigned with the BJP", was a tongue-in-cheek remark by Congress MLA from Bhagalpur Ajeet Sharma...
As host of the first meeting of such like-minded parties, held in Patna last year, he was widely regarded as the architect of the opposition front INDIA which, however, baulked at naming him as its convenor, and irked him with suggestions like projecting the elderly Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge as the Prime Ministerial candidate...
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