Nitish’s ‘makeover’: Protector of the corrupt and defender of goons

Patna: The contrast is only too stark to evade notice. In his first term as the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar had fired one of his ministerial colleagues, Jitan Ram Manjhi, moments after he had taken the oath merely on the information that the man he had given a cabinet berth was an accused in the degree scam. This was even before Manjhi was allotted a portfolio.

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