In Between Bihar Alliance wobbled, Gandhi's called 2 times to Nitish kumar a Day

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 In the last 24 hours, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has spoken on the phone to both Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, the mother-son combine that runs the Congress. The calls were made as the Bihar government, of which the Congress is a member, appears to be ungluing rapidly. 

Nitish Kumar's party, the Janata Dal-United governs the state along with the Congress and Lalu Yadav. Last Friday, Lalu Yadav, 71 and his son, Tejashwi Yadav, were named in a CBI case for corruption and their homes and offices were raided. Sonia Gandhi phoned Lalu Yadav to express her party's support.

 So did leaders like Mamata Banerjee, agreeing that the case is another example of the central government's blatant persecution of its opponents. Nitish Kumar offered no such fist-bump, which amplified talk of the alliance in Bihar running out of juice. Yesterday, Nitish Kumar released the safety catch on the alliance by indicating he expects Tejashwi Yadav to resign as Deputy Chief Minister.


The Yadavs have said that's not going to happen. The Congress is hoping to manage a compromise. Rahul Gandhi's conversation with Nitish Kumar "covered a range of issues", said JDU's SP Tyagi. The first-off-the-block action in picking the Vice President contender is a reaction to that accusation. Rahul Gandhi has been keen to meet with Nitish Kumar to unbraid the tension in the Bihar arrangement. 

Last week, the Congress Vice-President ordered his party to stop reproaching the Chief Minister for backing the BJP in the presidential election, which will be held on Monday.

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