Bihar could be next after Maha, says Kushwaha; JD (U) dismissive
Hindustan TimesFormer Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal leader Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday called Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s recent one-on-one meetings with his party MLAs as an effort to “salvage the situation” while drawing parallels with the political situation in Maharashtra even as the ruling Janata Dal dismissed the speculations. Party leaders privy to the developments said that the meetings were Nitish’s idea to “get feedback about the ground realities and the challenges” in view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Dismissing the speculations, parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, however, said that there was nothing unusual about a leader meeting his party legislators. “The fact is that the BJP is desperate ever since all the non-BJP parties gathered in Patna at the call of Nitish Kumar and resolved to take on the party unitedly.