Mission 2024: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren in Ranchi on Wednesday. An official said the meeting took place around 5 pm at Soren’s residence in Ranchi.
Kumar is on a mission to unite the scattered opposition parties to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“The meeting between the leaders is on,” a JD(U) leader said here.
Vinod Kumar Pandey, a spokesman for the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, said the two chief ministers and Yadav would “discuss various issues, including political issues”.
The Bihar CM, who parted ways with the BJP last year vowing to defeat it in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, visited several places and met various political leaders as part of his “opposition unity campaign”.
Kumar on Tuesday met Odisha Chief Minister and BJD leader Naveen Patnaik at his residence in Bhubaneswar and held discussions with him for over an hour.
Recently, he had also talked to West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamta Banerjee and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav.
Kumar and Yadav had met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in Delhi in April in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and promised to bring together all opposition parties against the BJP.
The JD(U) leader also held a meeting with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, among others.
Kumar has been maintaining that he had “no prime ministerial ambitions”, but said he hoped to play a “positive” role in building opposition unity against the ruling NDA at the Centre.
(with PTI inputs)