Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Saturday. After which, once again, the discussions about the matter in the political corridors were heated that Nitish would break the coalition with RJD and re-combine with BJP again? This question became even more important because one day earlier, Nitish Kumar had crossed the line with a meeting about the presidential election and the candidate of the opposition parties called by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
In the meanwhile, an offer to Nitish Kumar on behalf of the BJP came in that he quit Lalu Prasad and alliance with BJP again. Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP, Dr CP Thakur, in a special conversation with ‘Aaj Tak’, said that Nitish has been an old friend of BJP. In 2013, for some reason, he had broken the alliance with the BJP but now he should get back to the alliance with the BJP. Thakur said that the BJP also wants Nitish Kumar to join NDA back.
Significantly, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United had a 17-year long alliance with the BJP, after which the distances were created between the two in 2013. But for the last few months, Nitish Kumar has realized on many occasions that his attitude towards the BJP has softened and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not an avid greed. Especially when Nitish Kumar openly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of surgical strikes and demonetisation.
Prime Minister Modi’s support to Nitish Kumar on surgical strikes and notebooks was done when his party supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Maha coalition government strongly criticized Prime Minister Modi. Doctor CP Thakur said that Nitish Kumar is not able to run with independence after the alliance with Lalu, and in such circumstances, he should quit Lalu and co-align with BJP.
At the same time, Lalu’s younger son and deputy chief minister Taskhish Yadav also took out a scathing attack on the media about speculation on Nitish Kumar’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. Stasi Yadav wrote on Twitter: