Lok Sabha Elections 2024 : In a first in 2 years, PM Modi to share stage with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will share the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar on March 2, the first time in two years. 

This is also PM Modi's first visit to Bihar after 's return to the (NDA) fold in this year.

PM Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar are scheduled to share the stage at events in Aurangabad and Begusarai of Bihar, ahead of polls 2024. Both are Lok Sabha constituencies currently held by the (BJP).

Last time, the two leaders shared the stage at ’s oath ceremony as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow in March 2022.

Today's event, part of PM Modi's whirlwind tour of the country ahead of general elections, is scheduled just a day before Opposition leaders come together for one of its biggest rallies since the was formed last year. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will share the stage with RJD chief Lalu Prasad and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury at a mega rally at historical in Bihar's Patna on March 3.

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Incidentally, Nitish Kumar had in June 2023, then chief minister of the Janata Dal United -RJD government in Bihar, hosted the in Patna at the bloc's first meeting. Seven months later, Kumar switched sides and became the chief minister of the new BJP-JD-U government in January, 2024.

This was the fifth change of camp for Nitish Kumar, the longest-serving chief minister of Bihar. Since 2013, Kumar has been swinging between the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan, all the while keeping his chief minister's seat intact.

Before his latest switch in January, Kumar joined Mahagathbandhan in August 2022, three years after he had walked out of the alliance and joined the NDA.

Nitish had met after he joined the NDA, one more time.

Bihar sends 40 memers to Lok Sabha. In 2019, the BJP