Why are you elevating the problem?

NITI Aayog has revealed a doc that claims Bihar is India’s poorest state. I stated the nation can’t develop with out growing Bihar’s 12 crore inhabitants.

What was your demand?

The CM (Nitsh Kumar) has additionally accepted that Bihar is a backward state, therefore we must be given backward standing. If Bihar wants the standing of a backward state, there have to be niti (coverage), nivesh (funding).

What sort of coverage would you like?

A coverage for youth, infra, IT and greenfield airports, for girls’s mortality, training, little one well being, and so on. So I’m demanding that the state deliver a coverage paper on every of those after which come again to the Centre on the backwardness challenge.

However you raised it in Parliament…

Sure… as a result of it’s a NITI Aayog report which has positioned the state (on the backside).

In Lok Sabha, BJP and JD(U) members couldn’t agree on implementing central tasks?

Beneath Part 3 of the Centre’s rural roads scheme, 6,000 km of roads have been sanctioned. However Bihar has solely given a proposal for 1,300 km. The Centre was saying the proposals haven’t come and we’re unable to sanction cash. Who’s to be blamed?

So will Adityanath be CM once more ought to the BJP come again to energy in UP? Or received’t he? The three pictures had been parsed and pored over, and maybe, as meant, left none the wiser – least of all of the prime contenders in UP’s frenzied ballot race.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by UP BJP President Keshav Prasad Maurya on the BJP Vijay Shankhnad Rally in Meerut forward of the Meeting polls. (PTI)

In politics the place a thousand phrases might say little, an image typically does converse louder concerning the straws within the wind.

Modi, for instance, has typically been captured mid-handshake or hug with international leaders, but it surely was maybe the primary time he featured in such a one-on-one with a celebration CM.

“The photograph of Modiji and Yogiji strolling collectively was a transparent message for the UP BJP,” stated a senior BJP Rajya Sabha MP. “It was definitely a part of constructing a story forward of the election to strengthen Yogiji’s management and the Prime Minister’s endorsement of it.” A celebration chief who’s an office-bearer within the organisation stated: “In fact, it was meant to inform the voters who could be on the helm of affairs.”

Narendra Modi with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on the NDA rally in Ludhiana in 2009. (Specific Picture/File)

Footage of Modi and Maurya had been the requisite balancing act – with Maurya the tallest OBC chief of the BJP, the social gathering may hardly do in any other case.

In 2009, at a time when Modi was solely the primary amongst a number of BJP CMs, and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar the star who shined brighter, an NDA rally in Ludhiana had despatched a touch of the change within the air. Having publicly distanced himself from Modi on account of the 2002 Gujarat riots, Nitish had simply smiled as Modi had clutched his hand and raised it.

The reminiscence of that picture haunted Nitish, and his political catapults, for lengthy after. When it got here time for the 2010 Bihar elections, BJP hoardings and ads carrying that photograph from a 12 months in the past had been taken offence to by the JD(U). Within the state, Nitish was seen as a “secular”, pro-development chief, equally admired by its Muslims. Nitish expressed his displeasure with a last-minute cancellation of a dinner for NDA allies. He even returned the Rs 5 crore Gujarat had contributed as flood reduction, after the latter additionally put out ads for a similar.

Dimple Yadav with the stage with Bahujan Samaj Celebration supremo Mayawati in Kannauj in 2019. (TV seize)

Three years later, Nitish walked out of the NDA as Modi emerged as its prime ministerial candidate. A decade later, the JD(U) chief is again within the NDA fold, as a tiny accomplice.

In April 2019, a good unlikelier picture got here forward of one other Lok Sabha election. Then Samajwadi Celebration Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav’s spouse Dimple confirmed BSP chief Mayawati the last word honour by touching her toes at a rally in Kannuaj. If anybody had any lingering doubts concerning the BSP and SP ever managing to place the bitterness of their fractured alliance of the early Nineties behind, this settled them. A ‘grand alliance’ adopted, despite the fact that it did little to include the BJP’s sweep.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, son Aditya Thackeray with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in 2020.
(Phot: Twitter/INC)

In November 2019, two different uncommon companions sealed their cope with a photograph. Having outsmarted the BJP at its personal energy sport in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief Aditya Thackeray referred to as on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to ask her to his father Uddhav’s swearing-in as CM. This may have as soon as been unthinkable from a celebration whose founder Bal Thackeray stated it could be higher at hand India over again to the British than being ruled by an “Italian”, and who referred to as the Congress a “most cancers”.

In February 2020, the father-son duo of Uddhav and Aditya collectively referred to as on Sonia. The bouquet they got here bearing was faithfully photographed.

After which there may be the absence of a photograph. As Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee goals for a nationwide position, her Delhi go to didn’t embrace a stopover on the Gandhis’. Quickly after, the Sena, indicating its choice within the management stakes between the TMC and Cong, despatched over MP Sanjay Raut to satisfy Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

By PTI

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday congratulated his former deputy Tejashwi Yadav upon the latter’s marriage, subtly expressing disappointment over not being knowledgeable, not to mention being invited.

In a brief however rigorously worded congratulatory assertion, Kumar confused the truth that he heard concerning the wedding ceremony of Yadav, now the chief of the opposition, in “information media”.

Yadav, who tied the knot in Delhi, is the youthful son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Kumar’s arch rival.

Prasad and Kumar have recognized one another for the reason that JP motion of 1974 when each had lower their political tooth as scholar leaders.

Fierce political rivalry however, the 2 have usually been to one another’s place on particular events.

Individuals right here nonetheless bear in mind the nice and cozy embrace wherein they held one another when Kumar attended the marriage of Prasad’s elder son three and a half years in the past.