A political bombshell in the last one month was the “ghar-wapsi” (return of the prodigal) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) to realign itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is a welcome development since the issue on which the splitting of the “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) of Mr Kumar’s JD(U), Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Sonia Gandhi’s Congress took place was on probity in public life. However, it was an example of the “theatre of the absurd” that JD(U) had agreed to form a grand alliance which included the RJD in the first
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