DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 NITISH TAKES OATH AS CM FOR 9TH TIME, BJP PICKS 2 DEPUTY CMs Patna powershift again ‘GAME’S JUST BEGUN’ Things were not going well... no question of going back now: Nitish Nitish tired, had problems with us getting credit: Tejashwi PATNA, JANUARY 28 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INTERVIEW GUIDANCE PROGRAMME CSE - 2023 : Offline/Online Meet to Former Chairman of UPSC through ‘‘ Mentorship Program ’’ ( One-to-one Session : 18 Feb. 2024 ) with Prof. D.P. Agarwal Former Chairman, UPSC Book your slot : www.vajiraoinstitute.com Honourable Board Members of UPSC Mock-Interview Programme Shri M.C. Gupta IAS (Retd.) Shri O.P. Singh IPS (Retd.) * Former Director General of Police (DGP), UP * Former DGP CISF & NDRF * Former Chief Secretary Govt. of Haryana * Former Director of IIPA SANTOSH SINGH PATNA, JANUARY 28 Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha during the swearing-in ceremony in Patna, Sunday. PTI REPORTS,P6 Nitish exit undermines Opp’s 2024 caste pitch, sharpens anti-Cong plank VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, JANUARY 28 first meet of the Opposition (INDIA) bloc in Patna in June 2023. His crossing over, therefore, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, has both symbolic and substantive impact beyond just the possible bump-up in the NDA tally from Bihar. It puts a question ● markontheOpposition’s bid to counter Hindutva with social justice — a strategy that has been its political commonsense since the early 1990s, E EXPLAINED FOR THE BJP, Nitish Kumar’s reentry into the NDA fold couldn’t have been better timed. The architect of the Bihar caste survey, he was the one who providedthebasictemplate fortheOpposition’scastecensus call and social justice pitch against the BJP in 2024. Nitish wasalsotheonewhochairedthe BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY CALLING Nitish Kumar a “respectable” but “tired” leader who has “problems” with him and his party RJD getting credit for the work done so far, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Sunday saidthattheJD(U)wouldbe“finished” in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. "Nitish Kumar seems to have a problem with me getting the credit for many achievements of our government. It should ring alarm bells for the BJP," quipped Yadav, adding that he had “made” NitishworktowardsfulfillingtheRJD's 10lakhjobselection promise. Steering clear of directly attackingNitish,Yadavunderlined the “work” the RJD-JD(U) government had done in the 18 months before it fell because of the break-up of the alliance. "Nitishji is a respectable leader. He used to mock me when I was in the opposition for promising 10 lakh jobs during the 2020 state elections. I made CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Shri M. Ramachandran IAS (Retd.) Shri Ranjiv Singh Dalal IPS (Retd.) * Former Secretary Govt. of India SANTOSH SINGH SWITCHING SIDES for the fifth time in just over a decade, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar returned to the NDA on Sunday, less than 18 months after he left the alliance, and took oath as the Bihar Chief Minister for the ninth time. BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary and former Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, named as Deputy Chief Ministers, were among the ministers sworn in. Six other ministers, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) leader Santosh Kumar Suman, Independent Sumit Kumar Singh, BJP's Prem Kumar, and JD(U)'s Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Shravan Kumar, also took oath. Speaking to reporters after the swearing-in ceremony, Kumar said: “I have come back where I was earlier. 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