Friends or foes?

The Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) might have come together under the Janata Parivar umbrella to unitedly fight the coming Bihar Assembly elections, but the animosity between the members of the two parties simply refuses to die. In fact, leaders of the two parties continue to castigate each other at the first given opportunity. Senior RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh publicly taunted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recently for his "hi-fi" publicity blitz and urged him not to copy Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi while devising his election campaign. Just a few days before that, at the launch of the state's government's ambitious Bihar@2025 campaign, some audio-visual clips screened on the occasion talked about the deplorable condition of the infrastructure in the state under the earlier dispensation (the RJD ruled the state when Kumar came to power with the Bharatiya Janata Party as an ally in 2005).