A section of BJP leaders reacted to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's ultimatum to rule out Narendra Modi as their prime ministerial candidate by calling it Nitish Kumar's obsession with his Gujarat counterpart; or his problem with an individual. They may be right but Kumar's conditionality puts him on a collision course with the saffron party as a whole. In his interview to ET where he rejected Modi's candidature, although without taking his name, Kumar stressed that he had no problem with the BJP. He also spoke about Congress's fast-shrinking influence.