Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on his first visit to New Delhi after breaking ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and returning to the Mahagatbandhan with the Rashtriya Janata Dal, met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday evening at the latter’s residence.
The Congress is an ally in the Mahagatbandhan, or grand alliance, and has two Ministers in the Bihar Cabinet.
Mr. Kumar’s last meeting with the Congress leadership was with party chief Sonia Gandhi in April 2017, just two months before he broke ties with the RJD over corruption cases against then Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and returned to the NDA midway through the tenure of the Mahagatbandhan government that was elected in 2015.
