Nitish's cleanliness drive

You draw flak either way - if you fight corruption, your detractors see an ulterior motive; if you don't, they see apathy. So, when Narendra Kumar Pandey, a three-term MLA from Tarari in Bhojpur district in Bihar, faced police heat in connection with a bomb blast case, some of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's opponents saw the coming elections as the reason for the clean-up drive within the party. Others said Pandey was looking to switch over to Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party, which invited the wrath of party heavyweights.