Nitish's dilemma

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is caught between the devil and the deep sea. Kumar’s party, Janata Dal-United (JD-U), has downplayed the significance of Tuesday’s meeting between Kumar and his deputy, Tejashwi Yadav, an accused in the land-for-hotels corruption case.

Kumar must drop Yadav from his Cabinet if he wants to show that he is intolerant of corruption. But he seems not to be able to muster the courage to sack Yadav for fear of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) withdrawing support to his government. 

Kumar’s conscience hardly permits him to crawl back to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) if the RJD