Nitish at a U-turn again, BJP holds talks, allies hold breath
The JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar seemed on the brink on Thursday evening, with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar most likely to cross over to the NDA again.
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Buzz over its plans, JD(U) admits ‘BJP more prepared’, says ‘better had Rahul yatra been INDIA event’
The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday played down speculation of turbulence in the Bihar Mahagathbandhan and INDIA bloc. But it said that the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra event in Purnea on January 30, where party president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is scheduled to share the stage with senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) founder Lalu Prasad, should have been held under the banner of the Opposition alliance and not the Congress.
Amid talk of strain in JD(U)-RJD ties, Bihar gets a new education minister: Who is Alok Kumar Mehta?
A day after Bihar education official K K Pathak, the increasingly prominent additional chief secretary of the department, returned to work, scotching rumours of his resignation, the state government on Saturday removed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Chandra Shekhar as the education minister and named him the minister of the low-profile sugarcane department. The government replaced him with senior RJD leader Alok Kumar Mehta, a long-trusted aide of party chief Lalu Prasad who held the ministry of revenue and land reforms.
Lalu Prasad’s nephew Nagendra Rai and sons – ‘perennial troublemakers’ for RJD first family
When Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav assured stern action against those guilty in the Rupaspur attack case — in which Dobhi Nagar Panchayat executive officer Arvind Kumar Singh was grievously injured on Tuesday night – it brought Nagendra Rai, the nephew of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, back under spotlight.
Amid growing buzz over JD(U), RJD rift, Nitish Kumar rejigs team, axes MPs close to Lalan Singh
A day after RJD chief Lalu Prasad along with his son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav called on CM and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar at his residence in Patna, the relations between the two camps seem to have come under fresh strain, even as Nitish moved to revamp the JD(U).