Opinion |
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has, of late, been holding his political cards close to his chest, revealing them at moments of his own choosing and resisting the urgency of public debates and events — whether it be in the run-up to the announcement of the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance, of which his Janata Dal (United) is a constituent, or on the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces. What he has taken up most emphatically and unambiguously, however, is the demand for a caste-based census.
