Nitish rules out return to NDA, BJP says won’t take back even if he begs

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday ruled out returning to the NDA, an alliance he parted with a year ago, to which the BJP retorted he would not be welcome even if he begged for another chance.

Kumar snapped at reporters asking him about speculations on the possibility of the JD(U)’s return to the NDA, saying, “Kya faltu baat karte hain (What rubbish are you talking).”

To this, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, Kumar’s former deputy, called the JD(U) supremo a “political liability who had lost his steam” and said “naak ragdenge to bhi nahin wapas lenge” (will not be re-inducted even if begs).