A Nitish Kumar model for India or a Modi model for Bihar?

It is models-defining time in Indian politics. There is the cowboy Narendra Modi model, the bleating mai-baap Nitish Kumar model and lately even a quick-gun DMK model. The last seems to advocate that there can be one foreign policy for the states and one for the centre and the two can be at variance. If we ignore that as DMK-posturing for the moment, it is the Modi vs Nitish model that is open to debate after the Bihar chief minister offered himself as the one to emulate at his massive rally in the capital last Sunday.

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