Nitish Kumar to meet Bihar Governor, likely to split with BJP

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ In a day of fast moving political developments Bihar’s mercurial Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to meet Governor Phagu Chauhan later in the day, sources close to the development said. Though no official announcements have been made, Kumar is likely to split with ally BJP for a second time in eight years and embrace support from the RJD led Mahagathbandhan to continue in office.

The meeting with Governor Chauhan is scheduled for 4 pm, said sources. A meeting of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, comprising the Left and the Congress, also took place at Rabri Devi’s house, across the street from the chief minister’s residence where all the MLAs are said to have signed a letter of support to Kumar. Leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav is likely to visit the CM’s residence to hand over the letter of support any time.

The CM is understood to have told party legislators and MPs, at a meeting he convened at his official residence, that he had been driven against the wall by the BJP which tried to weaken his JD(U), first by propping up Chirag Paswan’s rebellion and later through the party’s former national president RCP Singh. Singh was made a cabinet minister at the Centre without Kumar’s explicit agreement. Consequently, when his term as a Rajya Sabha member ended, the JD(U) refused to give him another term as an MP, thus ending his stint as cabinet minister as well. Following this, rumours of a split in the JD(U) engineered by Singh’s supporters surfaced.

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