Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has started campaigning today for the by-elections to be held in Bihar. While campaigning for the BJP candidate in Tarari, Nitish Kumar said that we have been working together since 2005. We have had a relationship with BJP since the beginning. He clearly said that the relationship will continue in future also. We made a mistake twice. We formed the government with RJD. But when he started messing up, I couldn’t bear it. I realized my mistake and we again came with BJP. Along with this he said that now there will be no left or right.
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Not only this, Nitish Kumar also remembered former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He said that Atal Bihari Vajpayee had made him the Chief Minister. Nitish said that I have been a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government. Some mistakes were made here and there but now we will work together. We used to see that no work was being done. Attacking Lalu Yadav and RJD, he said that during their government, no one was able to leave their house after evening due to fear. There were clashes because of them.
Nitish clearly said that he wanted only Muslim votes. But there were more Hindu-Muslim conflicts. Have there been any clashes after we came to power? He said that we worked for Hindus, Muslims, upper castes, backward, extremely backward, Dalits and Mahadalits. We also did a lot of work for the Muslim community. Madrassas were given government recognition and teachers were given salaries equal to government school teachers. They (opposition) kept taking votes and never did anything.
With 12 Lok Sabha MPs, the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) is a key ally of the BJP in the NDA government. In January this year, Kumar returned to the NDA less than two years after he left the BJP-led alliance and joined hands with Lalu Prasad’s RJD. Nitish Kumar, who started his political career during the JP movement in the 1970s, ended his 17-year-long alliance with the BJP in 2013 and reunited with the RJD.
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He contested the 2015 Bihar Assembly election as part of a grand alliance with the RJD and Congress and won a landslide victory. But the alliance did not last long and Kumar left RJD and returned to NDA. He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election and 2020 Bihar Assembly election as part of the NDA. But in 2022, he came out of the alliance and again joined the Grand Alliance.
