Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday snubbed the RJD, headed by his arch-rival Lalu Prasad, stating that he had forged alliances “by mistake” with the opposition party which “did nothing” while in power.
The JD(U) supremo remarked days after Prasad, a former CM himself, had claimed that the RJD was keeping its “doors open” for the former ally, who is now back in the BJP-led NDA.
Kumar, however, did not take questions about the cryptic ‘offer’ from Lalu, which was made light of by the RJD supremo’s son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav, but endorsed by ally Congress.
Lalu’s comments had come in the backdrop of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s equivocal stance on projecting Kumar as the chief ministerial candidate in the assembly polls due in less than a year.
State BJP leaders, on their part, have been maintaining that the JD-U supremo will be the ‘face’ of the NDA in the 2025 assembly elections.
The BJP, which fell short of a majority in the Lok Sabha polls, depends on allies like JD-U and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party to survive in power at the Centre.
