Exclusive -Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav take same flight to Delhi amid coalition suspense
Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav boarded the Patna-Delhi Vistara flight UK-718, arriving in the national capital around 10.40 a.m.
Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav take same flight to Delhi amid coalition suspense
While political equations are emerging out over the formation of government at the Centre, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav were on the same flight to Delhi in the morning to attend their respective party meetings in this capital city as the BJP-led NDA and the Opposition INDIA bloc strategise their next moves.
Both Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav flew in the Patna-Delhi Vistara flight number UK-718 and landed in Delhi around 10. 40 am.
While the buzz on opposition outreach ministers was on, Nitish Kumar, who has the record of having changed sides more than once, flew to Delhi. Kumar’s right-hand man and JDU major leader K C Tiwari said to news agency ANI yesterday that the party will remain with NDA and dismissed any sign of a move to INDIA group.
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The BJP secured 240 seats and Congress 99 as per the final tally released by the Election Commission of India on Wednesday and this was short of the required 272 for a clear majority. The NDA camp together had 292 seats while the second front named as INDIA secured 232 seats only. These seem to be far from the actual outcome of the 2024 election that could only give the BJP 303 and 282 seats in 2019 and 2014 respectively with an outright majority.
While on the one hand, NDA was comfortably placed with more than twice the required 272 majority mark to form the government, PM Narendra Modi would now have to rely on disparate regional parties, whose allegiance had shifted in the past.
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