BJP's 'Plan B' For Bihar
India Today|July 03, 2017

Pitting the UP chief minister against the Bihar CM for 2019

Amitabh Srivastava
BJP's 'Plan B' For Bihar

With the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Prasad Yadav combine showing no signs of cracking despite its attempts to woo the chief minister, the BJP seems to have switched to ‘Plan B’ for Bihar— sending Yogi Adityanath to Nitishland.

Addressing an impressive rally in Darbhanga (north Bihar) on June 15, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister told his Bihari audience that he had been “chosen” to work in their state. “By the next assembly polls, I’ll travel to every district and see that a BJP government is formed in Bihar,” he told them.

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