Corralling troops for an election | Nitish performs unifier

The Bihar chief minister has set himself the responsibility of aligning opposition occasions in the direction of the BJP for the 2024 frequent election. Not solely does it indicate bringing quite a few regional forces collectively, however as well as getting the Congress to scale down its ambitions wherever wished

ISSUE DATE: May 1, 2023 | UPDATED: Apr 21, 2023 18:21 IST

Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in New Delhi on April 12 as Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi look on. (Photo: ANI)

Ask Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar and Janata Dal (United) supremo, how loads sugar he wants in his cup of tea, and he’ll most likely inform you, solely 1 / 4 spoon, not a pinch further. Any further, he thinks, will injury his cuppa. That an identical consideration to aspect and the willingness to achieve a perfect stability would possibly perhaps turn into helpful as, a yr ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he items out to restore a novel, loads bigger, boiling pot: of an implosive, perpetually scorching nationwide opposition.

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Arindam Mukherjee

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Apr 21, 2023