Less than a month after he returned to the BJP-led NDA, a coalition he has quit twice in a decade, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday asserted his latest realignment was going to be “permanent” and would last “forever”.
Nitish Kumar, who is also the JD(U) president, was talking to reporters in Patna after returning from Delhi where he had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP national president JP Nadda, among others.
“I have come back to the alliance where I belong, and from which I had been away for a while. Now I am going to be here forever. Our ties will be permanent,” claimed Kumar, whose latest volte-face has come as a blow to the opposition bloc INDIA, which he had helped form.