Will Nitish Kumar talk to non-UPA parties?

New Delhi: When Janata Dal U leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Congress leaders in Delhi on Wednesday, a strategy was worked out between them. In this, it was decided that Nitish Kumar would talk to the leaders of those parties, which are not yet a part of the UPA but may be ready to contest the elections together against the BJP. RJD leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav was also involved in this strategic meeting. But he is already a part of the Congress-led UPA, so he is not going to have any significant role in future politics. There are many parties outside the Congress-led UPA, whose leaders do not want to talk to the Congress. Nitish will act as a bridge between them.

Nitish Kumar has proposed, on his part in talks with Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, that he can talk to six non-UPA parties. It was also decided in this meeting that the Congress itself would hold talks with the constituents of the UPA. Means Congress will talk to parties like NCP, JMM, RJD, DMK, Muslim League etc. On the other hand, Nitish Kumar will talk to Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Chandrasekhar Rao, Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav. Apart from these four anti-BJP parties, he will also talk to two parties in harmony with the BJP - Biju Janata Dal and YSR Congress. Keep in mind that DMK chief MK Stalin had organized a conference on social justice in the past, in that too Naveen Patnaik and Jagan Mohan Reddy had been invited, but both did not send their representatives to that conference.