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Nitish Kumar sworn back as CM: What does this mean for Bihar?
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jul 27, 2017 23:21 IST
Nitish Kumar, hours after resigning as the chief minister of Bihar and pulling Janata Dal (United) out of the Grand Alliance, was once again sworn-in as the chief minister today, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by his side.
With this, Nitish Kumar has nearly killed Opposition's chances to form a Grand Alliance, on the lines of the mahagatbandhan in Bihar, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Snapping ties with allies Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress, Nitish Kumar stopped short of blaming Lalu Prasad and Rahul Gandhi for not doing enough to save the Grand Alliance, or mahagatbandhan, that defeated the BJP in the 2015 Assembly election in Bihar.
A fuming Lalu Prasad called the dramatic collapse of his government a "setting" between the BJP-RSS and Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
However, for the Congress-led Opposition, the reality of Nitish Kumar walking away from the Grand Alliance means that all its hopes of forging a similar alliance to challenge the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are crushed.
India Today's Rajdeep Sardesai discusses with various political leaders what this sudden turn of events mean for Bihar's future and national politics?
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