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‘Corruption’ a deal-breaker for
Nitish Kumar in 2017, but Lalu
family still under graft cloud
Since the Bihar CM ended JD(U)'s alliance with RJD and went back to BJP, Lalu
Prasad Yadav has been convicted in five fodder scam cases and his family is
standing trial in two separate cases.
Written by Deeptiman Tiwary
New Delhi | Updated: August 9, 2022 08:26 IST
6 min read
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar along with RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi. (Express archives)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday set political circles in the state and
Delhi abuzz amid reports of turbulence in the alliance between the Janata Dal
(United) and the BJP.
Kumar had ended the party’s alliance with the BJP once earlier — in 2013 — and in
the run-up to the November 2015 Assembly elections joined hands with arch-rival
Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress and some other
smaller parties to form a “Mahagathbandan (grand alliance)”. Ever a consummate
politician, Kumar broke away from the Mahagathbandan in July 2017 over
corruption charges against then Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, saying he had “zero
tolerance for corruption” and that the RJD had “no answers” to corruption charges
following the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) raids on Lalu’s family.
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