Strange bedfellows

Nitish Kumar's JD(U) was ignored in Sunday's reshuffle of Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is said to be miffed with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kumar leads the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), which was ignored in Sunday’s reshuffle of Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers. Not one to sit quiet, Kumar reached out to BJP allies in Bihar such as Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular). Kumar and Manjhi had split on a bitter note, but politics turns foes into friends rather quickly. Paswan met Kumar after the JD-U formed an alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. 

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