Joint Opposition Meet Bihar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that he was insistent upon "heads" of respective parties attending the opposition meet, which was scheduled on June 12, but has been postponed.

After months of prickly negotiations, Nitish Kumar and BJP president Amit Shah announced that they would go half-and-half on seat sharing in Bihar for the 2019 national election. But less than two hours after their joint press conference, one of their allies was in a closed door meeting with the opposition camp's Tejashwi Yadav.

The Opposition move to field a joint candidate to take on the ruling BJP's nominee for President began in April, after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi and urged her to lead the initiative. Mr Kumar's decision to back Ram Nath Kovind, the candidate picked by the Narendra Modi government for President, t...

After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Left's Sitaram Yechury has met Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss jointly fielding an opposition candidate against the nominee of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the election for President in July. Lalu Yadav of the RJD has said he too will meet Sonia Gandhi, who has deliberately been...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that he was insistent upon "heads" of respective parties attending the opposition meet, which was scheduled on June 12, but has been postponed.

After months of prickly negotiations, Nitish Kumar and BJP president Amit Shah announced that they would go half-and-half on seat sharing in Bihar for the 2019 national election. But less than two hours after their joint press conference, one of their allies was in a closed door meeting with the opposition camp's Tejashwi Yadav.

The Opposition move to field a joint candidate to take on the ruling BJP's nominee for President began in April, after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi and urged her to lead the initiative. Mr Kumar's decision to back Ram Nath Kovind, the candidate picked by the Narendra Modi government for President, t...

After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Left's Sitaram Yechury has met Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss jointly fielding an opposition candidate against the nominee of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the election for President in July. Lalu Yadav of the RJD has said he too will meet Sonia Gandhi, who has deliberately been...