LIVE! When Modi made Lalu call up Nitish after 20 years of silence

May 19, 2014 12:37

Narendra Modi -- and perhaps the next generation -- have ensured a political phone conversation after 20 years between Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar. JD(U)-RJD sources said Lalu Prasad called up Nitish yesterday, a day after the election results reduced Bihar's two giants to single-digit entities and forced the chief minister to resign.

The call is part of the back-channel efforts that are on to build a bridge between the JD(U) and the RJD, both offshoots of the erstwhile Janata parivar. Read

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