With JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar on the brink of abandoning the INDIA ship, Congress on Saturday rushed former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel to Patna as a last-minute effort to salvage the mahagathbandhan’s sinking ship.
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Congress asserted he was the “architect” of the INDIA bloc who not only hosted the opposition grouping’s first meeting in Patna in June last year, but also participated “with gusto” in the grouping’s subsequent meetings in Bengaluru and Mumbai. The party also refused to concede that a clutch of Congress legislators were likely to follow Nitish’s footsteps.
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