Nitish Kumar's 'coalition of extremes' has been shattered

Nitish Kumar has completed eight years of his eventful tenure as Bihar chief minister this month. Till recently, he was leading a powerful coalition of the JD(U) and BJP, under the rubric of the NDA. The grand political "coalition of extremes", assiduously built over the years, has been shattered. However, one has to examine to what extent the erstwhile coalition has also broken at the ground level. Can it bring back memories of the societal and class conflagrations of yesteryears?

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