Prime Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar with Mulayam S Yadav and his son Akhilesh, both former CM UP.
New Delhi / Gurgaon:
Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar today met another old “socialist” friend, Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi party, in a hospital in Gurgaon, a turning point in his opposition unity campaign against the BJP for wrestling. in 2024.
The JD (U) leader also met with former Haryana Prime Minister Om Prakash Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal and fellow Bihar leader Sharad Yadav, who was once the JD (U) president.
This came on a day when the BJP also held a high-level meeting to discuss specific Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
Nitish Kumar – denying so far that he is a candidate for prime minister to challenge Narendra Modi – has indeed embarked on the campaign of unity since he relaunched the alliance with RJD and the Tejashwi Yadav Congress in Bihar. He left the BJP to start from. His three-day NCR trip from Delhi, which began on Monday, is one of them.
Nitish Kumar of JDU and KC Tyagi with OP Chautala of INLD
Today, the top leader of JD (U) met Sitaram Yechury of the CPM in Delhi. Yesterday he met with Rahul Gandhi of Congress and Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP.
Telangana Prime Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao met with Nitish Kumar in Patna last week.
In a meeting with Mulayam Singh Yadav today, his son Akhilesh Yadav – like his father, the former Prime Minister of Uttar Pradesh – confronted Nitish Kumar. Mulayam Singh Yadav is hospitalized for the treatment of age-related diseases.
Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav during a meeting in Delhi
The Yadavs – Mulayam Singh, Lalu Prasad and Sharad – were once under the aegis of the Lok Dal-Janata Dal, along with Nitish Kumar and OP Chautala, before following their own path in the 1990s. OP Chautala’s father, former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, was one of the faces of this formation.
Since then, they have become regional forces. With the weakening of Congress, the alliance of regional parties now appears as a means of ousting the BJP from power.
The Samajwadi party led by Akhilesh Yadav recently increased its seats in the UP, although the BJP under Yogi Adityanath retained power. And the RJD is the largest party in Bihar, with JD (U) ‘s Nitish Kumar as Prime Minister.
As for his internal ambitions – he served as Union Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s BJP government – Nitish Kumar said today: “I am not a candidate, nor do I want to be.”