Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar condoled the deaths on Jitiya,, which included seven women, and announced an ex-gratia amount of Rs 4 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased.

On July 16, the Bihar CMO received an email from an unidentified account claiming to be associated with Al-Qaeda. The sender of the email threatened that the CMO premises would be "blown up with a bomb," and stated that even the special police of Bihar could not prevent it.

Between 1969 and 2010, about 11 Indian States were accorded 'Special Category Status'

The Minister of State for Finance pointed out that the Special Category Status for Bihar was previously considered in 2012 but it did not fulfill the criteria laid down by the National Development Council.

JDU leader KC Tyagi said, “Such is the game of politics that those who had refused to make Nitish Kumar INDIA bloc’s national convenor have been now making offers to make Nitish PM.”

Notably, the NDA alliance, which includes the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Janta Dal (United), are leading in Bihar, according to the latest trends issued by the Election Commission of India.

The accused was angered by Nitish Kumar’s decision to break the alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and join hands with the BJP.

The action was taken on a complaint involving land grab, deception and extortion against Subhash Yadav and seven other people.

A day after Nitish Kumar returned to the NDA folds, ditching its erstwhile ruling alliance, BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav moved a notice of no-confidence motion seeking the removal of the Assembly Speaker. 

Nitish Kumar on Sunday asserted that his alliance with NDA will remain forever adding that now there is no question of going anywhere else.