NDA leaders bond over grand feast in Bihar

Top NDA leaders in Bihar today attended a grand feast hosted here by the BJP on completion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four years in power.

They asserted that the coalition would continue its winning streak in the Lok Sabha polls due next year, even as alliance partner RLSP struck a note of discord.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan and Radha Mohan Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and BJP's national general secretary in-charge of Bihar Bhupendra Yadav were prominent among those who attended the get-together.

The meeting happened to be the first such function held after the return of Kumar who is also the JD(U) national president to the BJP-led coalition a year earlier.

Speculations were rife that matters relating to sharing of seats in the general elections would be discussed at the function, which lasted for almost two hours.

However, most leaders left the venue after having dinner, without speaking to the media or addressing functionaries of the various parties which constitute the NDA in the state.

The NDA in Bihar comprises, besides JD(U) and BJP, the Lok Janshakti Party headed by Paswan and the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party of Union minister Upendra Kushwaha who skipped the meeting.

Paswan's son and LJP parliamentary board chief Chirag Paswan said, "With today's function, we have made a great beginning. That we all stand solidly together was evident and soon we shall be looking forward to chalking out of our strategy for Lok Sabha polls."