NEW DELHI: Key Nationwide Democratic Alliance ally Nitish Kumar on Friday termed his occasion’s previous tie ups with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal a “mistake.” The feedback got here at an occasion the place the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s nationwide president JP Nadda was additionally current.
With out taking any names, the Bihar chief minister mentioned, “Those that have been in energy earlier than me did nothing. It was a mistake on my half to have gone with them on two events.”
Nitish’s occasion, which had accused the BJP of “back-stabbing” when it broke its alliance with NDA in 2022, added, “However I don’t want to repeat that mistake.I shall keep right here (with the NDA).”
Recalling his alliance with the saffron occasion, which has remained cold and warm for many of the half, Nitish mentioned, “Our relationship goes again to the Nineteen Nineties… all the great work in Bihar has been completed below our stewardship.”
Earlier this yr, Nitish marked his second main political reversal inside 18 months and the fourth such occasion in lower than 11 years by breaking alliance with Mahagathbandhan and joing the NDA.
Nitish’s latest declaration of loyalty to the BJP, which has now misplaced its majority within the Lok Sabha and depends closely on allies like JDU to take care of energy on the Centre, follows carefully on the heels of his assembly together with his ex-ally RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Regardless of the JDU supremo’s clarification that his latest assembly was merely in his capability because the chief of the opposition within the state meeting, a section of the media is rife with hypothesis about one more potential political U-turn by Nitish.
With out taking any names, the Bihar chief minister mentioned, “Those that have been in energy earlier than me did nothing. It was a mistake on my half to have gone with them on two events.”
Nitish’s occasion, which had accused the BJP of “back-stabbing” when it broke its alliance with NDA in 2022, added, “However I don’t want to repeat that mistake.I shall keep right here (with the NDA).”
Recalling his alliance with the saffron occasion, which has remained cold and warm for many of the half, Nitish mentioned, “Our relationship goes again to the Nineteen Nineties… all the great work in Bihar has been completed below our stewardship.”
Earlier this yr, Nitish marked his second main political reversal inside 18 months and the fourth such occasion in lower than 11 years by breaking alliance with Mahagathbandhan and joing the NDA.
Nitish’s latest declaration of loyalty to the BJP, which has now misplaced its majority within the Lok Sabha and depends closely on allies like JDU to take care of energy on the Centre, follows carefully on the heels of his assembly together with his ex-ally RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Regardless of the JDU supremo’s clarification that his latest assembly was merely in his capability because the chief of the opposition within the state meeting, a section of the media is rife with hypothesis about one more potential political U-turn by Nitish.