NDA's ally and Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar on Tuesday broke off ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party once again to form an alliance with his political opponent Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, paving the way for a 'Mahagathbandhan 2.0' ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Kumar led the government after the 2020 election as the BJP honoured his pre-poll projection as the NDA's chief ministerial candidate, even as it had won 74 seats in the 243-seat assembly while Kumar's Janata Dal (United) was a distant third with 43 seats.

Another challenge for the new government will be tackling the illicit liquor trade which has been flourishing despite prohibition. Yadav had been attacking the NDA government headed by Nitish over the police failure to stop the sale of illicit liquor in the state.

BJP leaders maintained that the 2020 assembly NDA mandate was primarily for BJP than for JDU and it had diminished Kumar's stature. A senior functionary said Kumar "resented that he was upstaged by BJP in the assembly polls and submitted to mind games and internal politicking."

Amid the gloom in the opposition camp over the collapse of the MVA government of Maharashtra, the second coming of Mahagathbandhan in Bihar provides the much-needed tactical and psychological booster shot and talking points for the national opposition gallery.

Now, once again, he has turned foe to the BJP and become friends with Lalu Prasad Yadav of the rival Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Kumar's political career started when he won the assembly election from Harnaut (Nalanda district) in 1985 on a Lok Dal ticket.

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Besides the many collective appeals from the Congress Working Committee members, several senior party leaders had privately tried to persuade Gandhi to commit to take over from his mother (Sonia Gandhi, the current 'interim' president of the party) but had received no such commitment.

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