Nitish Kumar

The Last Gambit

MJ Akbar

Nitish Kumar may speak with folded hands but thinks with hands crossed

Lining Up for 2024

Rajeev Deshpande

Nitish Kumar’s decision to reunite with RJD is a major realignment forced by his sense of political vulnerability

Bihar’s Left Sees No Ideological Obstacle in Backing ‘Opportunist’ Nitish

Ullekh NP

Our fight is against the BJP, says Dipankar Bhattacharya of CPI(ML) Liberation, which has 12 MLAs in the state assembly

Nitish-BJP split triggers decisive battle for the most backward vote

Rajeev Deshpande

BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi turning Lok Sabha elections into presidential contests

The Trojan Horse of Bihar

Rajeev Deshpande

The sudden fall of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra would have worked to convince Nitish Kumar that RCP Singh might well be the Trojan horse of Bihar

93 and the Good Life

Jayanta Ghosal

Natwar Singh has just turned 93 and he remains his sprightly self

Shatrughan Sinha: Picture This

Jayanta Ghosal

Sinha is believed to have even proposed to Banerjee that there should be a separate film department in the cabinet

Safe Distance?

Jayanta Ghosal

There is now speculation that Nitish Kumar is again planning to change his political alignment and laying the ground to distance himself from BJP for the 2024 General Election.