Corralling troops for an election | Nitish performs unifier

The Bihar leader minister has set himself the duty of aligning opposition events towards the BJP for the 2024 basic election. Now not simplest does it imply bringing numerous regional forces in combination, but additionally getting the Congress to scale down its ambitions anyplace wanted

ISSUE DATE: Would possibly 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 glance on. (Photograph: ANI)

Ask Nitish Kumar, the executive minister of Bihar and Janata Dal (United) supremo, how a lot sugar he needs in his cup of tea, and he’ll most probably let you know, only a quarter spoon, no longer a pinch extra. Any longer, he thinks, will wreck his cuppa. That very same consideration to element and the willingness to succeed in a really perfect stability may just in all probability come in useful as, a yr forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he units out to mend a special, a lot larger, boiling pot: of an implosive, eternally scorching nationwide opposition.

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Apr 21, 2023