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"We already knew that Manjhi was talking to NDA. Him joining NDA is no surprise to us," Chaudhary said. Earlier, Manjhi and his son Santosh Kumar Suman met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in presence of MoS Home Nityanand Rai in Delhi. Following the meeting, Manjhi announced his party's alliance with NDA. He said that HAMS is a part of NDA from now on.

"If Nitish Kumar has any proof about me, then he should disclose it in the public domain. We do not have such blood or nature to do spying and pass the messages from one place to another," Manjhi said while interacting with media persons in Gaya. "The real truth was Nitish Kumar applying pressure on me to merge.

Due to the power of the Dalit vote bank, Ram Vilas Paswan always stayed with the ruling party at the Centre and became a Union minister several times. Due to the Mahadalit vote bank, Jitan Ram Manjhi became the chief minister of Bihar. With the recent moves of Manjhi, both the NDA and the Grand Alliance leaders are.

The meeting was held at the Chief Minister's residence.The Bihar Chief Minister takes review meetings of every department these days and ministers concerned are normally present there. Even Tejashwi Yadav was present on several occasions during the meetings of his departments chaired by Nitish Kumar.

Terming it a "crime", Neeraj Kumar, MLC and party chief spokesperson for the party, said, "When the democracy of the country was being tarnished during the inauguration of new Parliament, Singh went there and participated in the event. It is a crime as our top leadership had already announced to boycott the event."

On withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency note, Lalan Singh said: "Whatever Narendra Modi says in the country, it becomes a law. He had demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes. He has said that the Rs 2,000 currency note would also be withdrawn. He can do anything."

"RCP Singh was associated with Nitish Kumar for 30 years and the latter was having blind faith in him. RCP Singh may have taken advantage of it and extorted tax. This was the reason why opposition leaders were accusing him of extorting RCP Tax at a time when he was with the JD-U and was national president of the party. Now, RCP Singh has to clarify whether he was taking RCP Tax or not," Singh said.

In Bihar, Yadavs are considered as the biggest caste but when it comes to the Lok Sabha elections, only five Yadav candidates had won in the 2019 polls. The people of the Rajput caste have lower numbers compared to Yadavs, Kushwaha, Muslims and even Kurmis but seven Rajput candidates had won in 2019 and reached the.

Md Ashab Uddin, a Janata Dal MLA from Jiribam Assembly constituency in Manipur, said, "The situation is improving in the state. I have visited many areas. People who have taken refuge in Cachar district thought that the violence in Churachandpur district would spread to their areas also. But this did not happen.

In a tweet, Lalan Singh said: "Rahul Gandhi Ji and Congress party have supported the caste based census. It is a good step in the direction of social justice." Our leader CM Nitish Kumar has been demanding for the caste based census in the country for years. The 11 MPs of JD-U met with union home minister Amit Shah and requested him.