Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar attributed the 2022 breakdown of his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party to friction inside his own party, Janata Dal, and promised never to sever ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance again.
Speaking in Purnea at a rally alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he charged that some JD colleagues, unnamed in the speech, “created problems” that led to his exit from the BJP alliance. He gestured toward Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh “Lalan”, who used to serve as JD’s national president, suggesting Singh was among those involved in the earlier turmoil. Nitish called his brief alliances with the RJD-Congress bloc “mistakes” and said those times of “mischief” during shared power would not recur.
Nitish highlighted that the JD-BJP combination first assumed government in Bihar in 2005, and though there were “ups and downs”, those chapters were closed. He said that any attempts by party colleagues to push him toward the opposition had ended. “I am now back. And I will not go anywhere henceforth,” he declared, to applause from the crowd and the Prime Minister.
His speech revisits a pattern: after breaking from the NDA in 2022 to join the Mahagathbandhan, Kumar rejoined the NDA in January 2024. He has frequently underscored that those shifts were responses to internal dissent rather than ideological buckling or betrayal of allies.
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