Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, the famous line from Francis Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’, appears to have been a guiding principle for the NDA in Bihar under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, which closely tracked the moves of the Opposition to outwit them when the time was ripe.

The ruling coalition began rolling out a series of benefits and announcements, seemingly unfazed by Opposition taunts that it was being a “copycat”.

Shortly after RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who would later be named as the chief ministerial candidate of the Opposition INDIA bloc, had announced that if voted to power, the coalition will give 200 units of free power, the longest serving CM, once a vocal critic of “freebies”, did a volte face of a different kind.

Kumar announced 125 units of free power ev

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