PM Modi will meet Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Delhi

PATNA: A top JD(U) leader said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in New Delhi. This will be Kumar’s first trip to the nation’s capital and his first encounter with Modi after his January 28 departure from the Mahagathbandhan coalition and return to the National Democratic coalition in Bihar.

The meeting is planned to occur only five days before the Kumar administration is expected to face a vote of confidence on February 12.
In the nation’s capital, Kumar is also anticipated to meet with BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The PM was visited on Monday by BJP deputy chief ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Bihar.
JD(U) sources claim that the chief minister’s meeting with senior BJP leaders may also cover matters related to the state’s Rajya Sabha elections.
Bihar has six open Rajya Sabha seats; elections are set on February 27 to fill these seats.
Two of the six seats are now held by the JD(U), which is led by senior politician Aneel Hegde and former party president Bashishth Narayan Singh. The other two seats are held by the RJD, which is led by Manoj Kumar Jha and Misa Bharti.
Sushil Kumar Modi, a former deputy chief minister for the BJP, has one seat, while Akhilesh Prasad Singh, the head of the Congress state unit, holds the other.