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Corralling troops for an election | Nitish plays unifier

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The Bihar chief minister has set himself the task of aligning opposition parties against the BJP for the 2024 general election. Not only does it mean bringing diverse regional forces together, but also getting the Congress to scale down its ambitions wherever needed

Amitabh Srivastava.

ISSUE DATE: May 1, 2023 | UPDATED: Apr 21, 2023 18:21 IST

Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in New Delhi on April 12 as Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi look on. (Photo: ANI)

Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in New Delhi on April 12 as Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi look on. (Photo: ANI)

Ask Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar and Janata Dal (United) supremo, how much sugar he wants in his cup of tea, and he will likely tell you, just a quarter spoon, not a pinch more. Any more, he thinks, will ruin his cuppa. That same attention to detail and the willingness to achieve a perfect balance could perhaps come in handy as, a year ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he sets out to fix a different, much bigger, boiling pot: of an implosive, perpetually sizzling national opposition.

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