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00:00TMC versus Raj Bhavan a clash reignited
00:15Kalyan Banerjee's mockery triggers fresh firestorm
00:24politics gets personal
00:30Street politics versus Raj Bhavan showdown returns
00:36Governor versus government the big bing ball blowout
00:52Well welcome you're watching to the point I'm Preeti Chaudhary
00:54Well let's tell you how exactly it played out
00:56Kalyan Banerjee known as somebody who very often speaks more than just his mouth and
01:01Says a few things that don't go down quite well from the TMC
01:05Suggested that arms and ammunition is being distributed to BJP supporters from the Raj Bhavan
01:12Well the backlash of that the governor of West Bengal a ordered search operations
01:19Inside the Raj Bhavan unprecedented and then asked for an FIR on hate speech where Kalyan Banerjee is concerned
01:25The governor of West Bengal would be joining us in a short while but first up allow me to take you through the headlines
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03:15All right viewers, Bihar is now passing the spotlight where it comes down to politics is the state of West Bengal
03:33Yesterday we had the SIR that kicked off in state of West Bengal
03:36With the chief election commission there and today we've seen once again a massive confrontation that has been building up in days where West Bengal is concerned
03:46The governor's office versus the government of TMC
03:49Primarily you have Mr Rananda Bose who's the governor of West Bengal taking on Kalyan Banuji
03:55One of the ministers in Mamata Banuji's cabinet on the premise where Kalyan Banuji made a controversial statement saying arms and ammunition is being distributed from the Raj Bhawan itself to the supporters of the BJP
04:09Well, the governor has not taken kindly to that he's asked for an FYR to be lodged against Mr Kalyan Banuji and also unprecedentedly ordered search operations inside Raj Bhawan
04:21Another face-off between West Bengal governor Ananda Bose and the Trinamul Congress
04:35TMC MP Kalyan Banuji is under police investigation after his explosive allegation that weapons are being stockpiled inside Raj Bhawan
04:46The TMC MP has been booked for defamation, assaulting the governor with intent to compel or restrain the exercise of any lawful power, endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India, promoting enmity between groups and misleading people
05:05These charges are non-bailable and the maximum punishment for the offenses is seven years
05:11It was this statement that triggered the case
05:14Raj Bhawan
05:16The Raj Bhawan
05:30reacting to the F.I.R. Kalyan Banerji said the governor is angry with him
05:35the governor then led a search operation at the Raj Bhavan premises
05:58to counter the MP's allegations searching for arms and ammunition in the
06:06Raj Bhavan is like a blind man searching in the dark a black cat which is not
06:13there one remark one F.I.R. and the political friction between Raj Bhavan
06:19and ruling TMC has once again taken center stage
06:23Bearer Report India Today
06:25Joining me
06:33Ordered an F.I.R. be lodged against Trinamul's Kalyan Banerji over his comments where he said that arms and
06:45ammunition were being distributed to BJP supporters from the Raj Bhavan. At the back of that there has of course also been a search operation in which Governor Bose himself
06:54aided at the Raj Bhavan. He's joining us live. Thank you for taking the time out
06:59Governor. My first question stems from you ordering and asking that an F.I.R. be filed
07:06against Trinamul leader Kalyan Banerji. Why what is the basis of this F.I.R. and your
07:12charge? You see, there is a victim. Howsoever high you think you are, the law is always above you. Here the particular Honorable MP has violated various provisions of the Parthia Nyai Samhita, which implies exhorting people to mutiny in a riot, making hate speech, and
07:19undermining the dignity of the dignity of the constitution of India. There are serious charges
07:26charges which can earn imprisonment up to seven years, and these are known by the
07:56unavailable offences. When the Honorable Member of Parliament said that the Governor is harboring
08:06criminals in the Raj Bhavan and also supplying arms and ammunition and bombs to members of
08:13a particular political party, it is certainly a hate speech which has the potential of leading
08:20people to riot in the streets. Therefore, it is my duty as Governor to re-establish the credibility
08:27of the Raj Bhavan before the people of Bengal. That is why these steps are taken.
08:33Governor Bose, you have also ordered a search operation on your own premises, which is the Governor's
08:38House, Raj Bhavan, where you yourself took part in search operations. Was it for pure optics? Because that is what the TMC suggests.
08:46Governor Bose, you see, when a falsehood is uttered, you know, as Mark Twain said, when truth puts on the shoes,
09:01lie would have travelled half the way round, which is very true. People should know the truth. They have a right to know the truth. Therefore, I thought, let me order an order against my own actions.
09:14The Central Forces, the State Forces, the Dog Squad and the Bomb Squad were invited to come to Raj Bhavan and conduct a thorough search of every nuke and corner of the Raj Bhavan. The search was done in the presence of the media and the public. Nothing has been unearthed. Now the people know what is the naked truth. That was the intention of this unprecedented act.
09:37But Governor Bose, you know, what the TMC suggests or says is that the governor of West Bengal has never quite honoured the spirit of federalism, where the governor's office has come down to being, you know, played as a political actor. Now these are allegations that have come from the incumbent chief minister as well as the government of TMC. Then that fine line between an institution and a government then gets blurred.
10:04You see, the governor's job is to be a friend, philosopher and guide to the people of the state. Governor goes by the constitution of India and the rule of law. I have tried my level best to confine within the constitution, within the rule of law. My personal equation with the chief minister is different.
10:06You see, the governor's job is to be a friend, philosopher and guide to the people of the state. Governor goes by the constitution of India and the rule of law.
10:24I have tried my level best to confine within the constitution, within the rule of law. My personal equation with the chief minister is different. But I do not allow that to cloud my judgments or compromise on the matters of constitution of the law. Therefore, I take the action which I deem fit under the law, under the constitution of the country for the, to protect the interests of the people of Bengal.
10:49Governor Bose, the allegation from the government of West Bengal is that the constitutional post that you hold is not being respected as a constitutional post and you have become a political actor where you resort to calling the chief minister of West Bengal, the lady Macbeth of Bengal.
11:08You know, that is also a charge where the charges that you have downgraded the office of the constitutional post of a governor and you have politicized it. Therefore, the back and forth that you see in the language of Mr. Kalyan Banerjee, the latest in that.
11:27You see, to say that, you know, comparing a person with Lady Macbeth is an insult. You know, it is from Shakespeare. He is a writer who knows the truth of human life. He also said misery makes strange bedfellows and politics also makes strange bedfellows.
11:50The governor and the chief minister need not necessarily be on the quarrelsome path. You know, I believe in fighting. Fight is for a cause.
12:01Quarrel is for ego. I avoid quarrelling for the sake of ego. But fight will certainly continue when I see that there is violation of the constitution of India or the rule of law. I will certainly step in and no personal relation will stand in the way.
12:15Governor Bose, when you use the word Lady Macbeth of Bengal, you also said from here on you will not share any public platform with the chief minister of West Bengal. You know, where the institutional then became personal is the charge.
12:34These are all old stories. After that, we have met. We have agreed. We have decided that we'll agree to disagree. Now the situation is changed. And there is no acrimonious debate between the governor and the chief minister.
12:52So you're saying all is well because the charges of a compromise federal structure at the behest of the governor office still is being laid by the TMC where they say that you unilaterally use the constitutional post to appoint and in the recent past 10 vice chancellors to state run universities, which is the purview of the state government.
13:14And this is just one of the many example where the government of West Bengal alleges the dilution of federalism.
13:21This has been taken up by this government at that time in the Calcutta high court. The chief justice himself has given the verdict that governor has chancellor, not governor. Chancellor is the appointing authority and government has no right to intervene and interfere in that. This is done by the high court. I'm not a higher court to comment on that.
13:48Fair point, sir. The other charge, of course, is, you know, was one on the celebration of West Bengal's Foundation Day, which the chief minister opposed, which once again, which you supported, which once again set the stage for a conflict between a constitutional post and an elected chief minister of a state.
14:11That clearly exemplifies the role of the governor as a rainbow bridge between the center and the state.
14:18The center has instructed all governors to celebrate the foundation day of each state as per instance of the government of India, I could celebrate the foundation day of the state for political reasons.
14:31The state government had a difference in the center of government. They wanted another day. These are all things matters that can be settled in an amicable manner after looking into all aspects of the case.
14:41So what you're basically saying is that there is no conflict between the state government and the post of the governor that you hold.
14:48And this was one off statement by a Kalyan Banerjee, one of the ministers in Mamata Banerjee's cabinet that needs to be addressed and he needs to be charged with hate speech.
14:57You're looking at this as an individual statement.
15:02There is difference of perception between the government of India and the state government, between the governor and the chief minister.
15:12That is part of our democracy. The balance which comes out of that. See, the elected chief minister need not to have the same perception as the nominated governor.
15:22As a nominated governor. So we have agreed. I suggested the chief minister agree that let us agree to disagree.
15:29In the matter of administration, we have to agree to disagree. I am not willing for any compromise on matters of principle or the constitutional properties or the rule of law.
15:40Below that, whatever balance is required, I believe in balance, not in confrontation.
15:45All right, sir. Thank you for taking the time out and joining us. But what is building up right now is a confrontation where you ask Kalyan Banerjee be charged of hate speech.
15:54But you say all is well between the both offices. Thank you for taking the time out and joining us, sir. Appreciate it.
16:04All right. So let's take that confrontation to our panelists this evening. Joining me, Monajit Mondal, political analyst, Tuhin Sinha, BJP, national spokesperson.
16:14Thank you for both of you for joining us. And we begin with Monajit Mondal. Monajit Mondal, you just heard the governor of West Bengal, where he very clearly pointed out that this is not a conflict with West Bengal.
16:28This is an allegation that was made completely unsubstantiated, not to Ananda Bose, but to the highest constitutional post in your state, which is the governor.
16:42You're attacking the Raj Bhavan directly, which is Kalyan Banerjee, and he needs to be charged with hate speech.
16:49No, I think, let me quote Shakespeare to answer him. You know, there is smell of blood, steel, all the perfumes of Arabia cannot suit in this sweet hand.
17:00That was Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare. The governor might have, you know, have a kind of idea of agreeing to disagree with the chief minister, with the state government.
17:11government. But for the last three years, he has been completely deriding the government, his own government minding.
17:18He is the constitutional head of the government. And every other day, he was criticizing the government, at times calling Lady Macbeth, Mamata Banerjee, who is, I think, the second most important political leader in the country after the prime minister, one of the most popular leaders.
17:34See, her political career, I think, do not have the sagacity to assess the political career of Miss Mamata Banerjee for over 45 years now.
17:42The fact remains, you know, Miss Chaudhary, is that I think both Mr. Banerjee and Mr. Bose, they are not really behaving like mature human beings.
17:53And what was the need of having this search in the Raj Bhavan? This is nothing but spectacle. He should have ignored it.
17:59Mr. Banerjee is a political person after all. But Mr. Mr. Bose is not a political person.
18:05Again, I repeat, he should talk to, he should have the courtesy over the member of the parliament.
18:11I'm not even going into the aspect of what he has done with the vice chancellor's appointment.
18:15We have been suffering for the last two years ad nauseum. Even now, still, now there are 10, 12 universities without the head of the university.
18:24All the students are suffering out there. I think this should have been more, you know, gentle way of dealing with the things.
18:31Mr. Banerjee, after all, is a political person. He will make these political charges.
18:35But Mr. Governor, we all respect the position of the governor.
18:39I think the kind of behavior that he showed by, especially by calling the dogs and the Kolkata police, I mean, what was the need of doing that?
18:48So if Mr. Banerjee is being political, ruthlessly, he too is being political. I think both of them should behave much in a manner of way.
18:56All right, your time is up. I want to, you know, and you speak of Mamata Banerjee being the second most important political leader after Prime Minister Modi, I would think, with what's just happened in Bihar.
19:07Nitish Kumar might want to claim that for himself. But I want to, you know, cut across to Tuhin Sina.
19:12Tuhin Sina, you know, there is a point there. Because at one end, you might suggest that the friction is at the count or at the behest of the TMC.
19:22But history stands testimony in terms of how the office, which is a constitutional post of the governor, has conducted itself.
19:30You have outrightly on multiple times, which is the office of the governor, attacked an elected chief minister of a state.
19:37You know, you have called names to the police of the state.
19:41You have tried to come in, interfere with state appointments, which goes against the grain of federalism.
19:49You yourself have brought the stature of the office down on multiple occasions of the governor's post.
19:55And today you're invoking exactly that to seek leverage over what Kalyan Banerjee has said.
20:04Well, good evening, Preeti. Good evening, everybody.
20:06You know, Jungle Raj is a reality in Bengal today, much like it was in Bihar between 1990 and 2005.
20:14And we as a political party are committed to end it in the next five months.
20:19Having said that, TMC as a party, you know, is temperamentally not equipped to belong to a modern democracy like India.
20:28And they have shown it on numerous occasions.
20:30This time, of course, Kalyan Banerjee has attacked the office of the governor with ludicrous, with preposterous,
20:35with absolutely unsubstantiated, mischievous, notorious charges for which I salute the honorable governor for, you know,
20:42for booking him under the right sections of BNS, for initiating, you know, defamation cases against him,
20:50and for equally getting his own premises searched.
20:53But, you know, where does Kalyan Banerjee get his energy from?
20:58He gets his anti-constitutional energy from Mamata Banerjee, who at every, you know, beck and call,
21:04takes an anti-constitutional position, first by opposing SIR.
21:08In the past, of course, she has opposed CAA and made all kinds of, you know, absurd claims that she would not allow it to be implemented.
21:15She would not allow the Waqq Amendment Act to be implemented in Bengal, which led to violence, which killed two people in Murshidabad.
21:21And finally, you know, when he makes these absurd charges of the governor of Bengal harboring some bombs or harboring some ammunition, you know, of BJP workers,
21:33let me just name a few TMC workers, TMC officials rather, who have in the recent past been accused and arrested for violence,
21:43intimidation or large kill misconduct in Bengal.
21:46Sheikh Shah Jahan, assault or ED team.
21:48Rabul Islam, murder of rival worker during panchayat election.
21:52South 24 Parkanas.
21:54Anubrat Mondal, election violence.
21:56Ajit Mehdi, land grabbing extortion charges.
21:58Shibu Hazra, sexual assault, intimidation of women in Sandesh Kali area.
22:02So, we all know the credentials of TMC.
22:05TMC is a party which believes in anarchy.
22:08All right, sir, your time is up.
22:09I'm going to give the both of you two minutes each to put your point forward.
22:12I want to bring in Monajeet Mondal.
22:14Monajeet Mondal, you do agree?
22:15Kalyan Banerjee has used language that he really shouldn't have.
22:18It's not just against the grain of constitutionality in this country.
22:22I think, first of all, I think he has made it amply clear that he was instigated by the governor,
22:30where the governor has been, as I mentioned, the governor has been, I think, making such comments,
22:36especially against Madam Mamta Banerjee.
22:39I mean, even now, he called that Lady Macbeth is not a problem.
22:43But I'm a teacher of Shakespeare.
22:45I know what kind of a character Lady Macbeth was.
22:48I think all of you know that how, what kind of role she played in Macbeth,
22:52almost playing the fourth witch in terms of the traditional interpretation of the play Macbeth,
22:57instigating Macbeth to kill Duncan.
23:00We all know, I think, that the governor doesn't need to justify calling Madam Mamta Banerjee Lady Macbeth,
23:06especially when she is trying to, you know, invoke the spirit of darkness and, you know, calling for unsexing her.
23:15So I think, I think the point is very clear that both these people are quite mature,
23:20but they are, both of them are behaving like green, unripe minds, both, both the sides.
23:25I'm not taking sides with anyone.
23:27The governor, definitely, he has denigrated his chair for the last two years.
23:31But remember the sagacity of the chief minister.
23:34She has never, ever attacked the governor.
23:37Even now, while in the case of the special case that, you know, Mr. Banerjee was mentioning in the Supreme Court,
23:42the state government has won the case.
23:45Despite that, the chief minister has never, never pressed the panic button and attacked the post of the governor.
23:52She, in fact, three months back, she went to the governor's house and had coffee with the honorable governor.
23:58I think the governor should also return this kind of curtsies, not just to the chief minister,
24:04but even to the elected members of the parliament.
24:07And my good friend, we talk about criminality in politics.
24:09But in politics, look at your record.
24:11Twenty percent of your member of parliament have heinous criminal record.
24:14I'm not talking about the local TMC leader.
24:16Despite the fact that,
24:18CVI could not even do any charge sheet, file charge sheet and punish Mr. Sheikh Shah Jahan.
24:22They have been, you know, inquiring for the last two and a half years.
24:26Nothing has happened.
24:27But your parliamentarians have criminal record.
24:29All right.
24:30Sir, your time is on.
24:31Tuhin Siddhar, your two minutes start now.
24:33And I just want to, you know, take you, draw your attention to what the governor has said and done in the recent past.
24:40He himself, you know, blurred the line between an institution and a personal attack where he said he will never share stage with Mamata Banerjee.
24:48Of course, he reneged on that.
24:49But other than that, various issues that could have been very, very controversial where the governor ideally should have stayed away.
24:56And one of those was during the time of Sandesh Kali because it was an ongoing investigation.
25:02At that time to come out openly picked sides, call the government of West Bengal, a government, you know, which instigates violence against women.
25:12You somewhere down the line denigrate the office of the governor.
25:16And then you set yourself up for attacks as wild as this.
25:19You know, this is not, this is not the first governor with whom TMC has had a problem.
25:27You know, when Jagdeep Dhankar ji was the governor of Bengal, they had, they were equally venomous in their attacks against him.
25:35In fact, I remember the TMC, the government had abandoned all those people affected by the post fall violence in 2021.
25:43And when Jagdeep Dhankar personally went to visit those people, they only, you know, increase their attacks on Jagdeep Dhankar.
25:51So, so the TMC government, like I said, is fundamentally opposed, is fundamentally not equipped to belong to a democracy.
25:59They have attacked every governor.
26:00Now, when it comes to, when it comes to the present governor, C.V. Anand, the post.
26:04Obviously, you have answered him about his language.
26:07I don't need to, you know, I don't need to re-answer the question.
26:10But yes, he has been driven to a point of despair by the repeated, you know, by the repeated, you know, preposterous behavior of TMC.
26:19They have leveled all kinds of false charges against him, which I don't even need to report.
26:24And when it comes to Kalyan Banerjee, I don't blame him.
26:27He is basically extending the uncouth practice of TMC.
26:31He is the one who was lampooning.
26:33Lampooning, you know, Jagdeep Dhankar when he was the vice president.
26:37He was mocking his handicap.
26:39We have all seen those videos.
26:41He is the person who had an open, you know, abusive match with Mahua Moitra.
26:46And then, of course, Mahua Moitra joined the match of slander.
26:50But this culture of violence, which TMC is now propagating in Bengal, I have a larger point.
26:56Why did Kalyan Banerjee make these absurd allegations of, you know, the governor harboring certain criminals or harboring certain?
27:03Because surely it is to deflect attention from something very malefidy, which TMC is planning across the state.
27:11We have seen instances of violence throughout the TMC regime, but in the run-up to the election,
27:16TMC is only going to increase that power and only result indulge in more violence.
27:21They have made this...
27:23Sir, your time is up and that's all the time that we really have for.
27:25Thank you for both of you for joining us on this debate.
27:28Unfortunately, this is not the last that we've seen of a conflict that has been brewing, simmering for years now.
27:35And this is the final lap.
27:37You're in the last six months of elections where West Bengal is concerned.
27:40And trust me, where the constitutional post of a governor and the post of an elected chief minister,
27:46Mamata Banerjee, comes into question, the face-off will be fierce.
27:50The amazing results for the NDA in Bihar are still playing out today.
27:55Nitish Kumar was unilaterally elected as the chief ministerial face-elect of the NDA.
28:03His name was proposed by none other but the deputy CM-elect, Samrat Chaudhary.
28:10And he went to the Raj Bhavan, the governor's residence to stake claim,
28:16where he said he had the numbers.
28:18And does he have the numbers?
28:20Along with 202 MLAs.
28:23Nitish Kumar has been elected as the leader of NDA legislative party.
28:30It is going to be Nitish Sarkar,
28:4510th time in Bihar.
28:46Nitish Kumar has been elected as the leader of NDA legislative party.
28:52Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Senha from the BJP have also been retained as deputy chief ministers.
29:00After NDA legislative party meet, Nitish Kumar met governor and staked claim to form the government.
29:07The
29:35The swearing-in ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Central Ministers, Chief Ministers of NDA-ruled States and Senior Leaders of the Alliance.
30:05India today has accessed details of what Nitish Cabinet could look like.
30:20Sources say J.D.U. could get five ministers, including names like Vijay Chaudhary and Ashok Chaudhary.
30:27BJP too could get five births.
30:30Nitin Naveen, Sanjay Sarawgi are likely to be picked.
30:33From Chirag Paswan's party, LJP Ram Vilas Raju Tiwari could become a minister.
30:40Rashtya Lok Samta party could pick Upendra Kushwaha's wife Snehalata, while Jitain Maji's H.A.M. may pick Santosh Suman.
30:49The oath ceremony in Patna will be a show of strength by the NDA, which has bounced back, regaining the ground lost in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
30:59With Rohit Singh and Shashi Bhushan in Patna Bureau Report, India Today.
31:03All right, the latest news break right now coming in.
31:15Nitish Kumar's first public comments after winning Bihar.
31:18He was in the State Assembly after that he went to stake claim at the Raj Bhavan.
31:22Nitish Kumar, inside the Assembly, praised the Prime Minister during the NDA MLA's meet.
31:28Saying that the Prime Minister has offered full support to Bihar, development pays to intensify in the state.
31:34Listen in, because very little has come in from now the Chief Minister-elect of Bihar, especially in this election.
31:42He might have campaigned, done a lot of jansabhas and rallies, but he hasn't given a single interview, leave alone, even speak to the press.
31:50So that's a rare moment that Nitish Kumar can be heard saying something.
31:54Listen in.
31:54Listen in.
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32:45अग्याना पत्रक्राइं पत्रक्राइं पत्रक्राइं, घ्रमधर करुछा अब्रस्तुत।
33:15All right, so that is Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister-elect for Bihar, addressing his Vidhayag Dal, his MLA is there, both coming in from the BJP, the LJP, the other smaller parties and his own party, the JDU, stating that the Prime Minister will also be one of the engines that will propel the growth of Bihar.
33:38A rare moment there. Like I said, you hadn't heard Nitish Kumar say much during the election, especially to the press. This also was recorded when he was addressing the NDA MLAs.
33:50I want to cut across right now to my colleague Rohit Singh and Pankaj Jha. Both of them have been tracking the election in Bihar very closely, the fallout of that, the tsunami that we have seen, which we right here call the Sunimo, which is a Nitish-Modi combine.
34:04But to bring you in, Rohit, you had Nitish Kumar inside the Assembly, address the NDA MLAs, give credit to the Prime Minister and say, time now to work on the second chapter of development where Bihar comes into question.
34:20Well, yes, while the India meeting was going on today at the Central Hall in Bihar with Ansar Bhaar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was making his address and during his address he once again reiterated that how he and his government and the centre was committed towards the development of Bihar
34:42and that there was a double-engine government both in Delhi as well as in Bihar.
34:47So, and in that same context, he also hit out at Lalu Pasaar and Rabdi Devi without naming them, where he says that
34:55as he usually says that the RJD governance between 1990 to 2005, nothing was done at that point of time.
35:06So, this is what Nitish Kumar said during his speech and address in the NDA meeting and also thanked the Prime Minister here for working towards the development of Bihar
35:18and providing financial assistance and all sort of help and support for the development of Bihar.
35:24So, that was Nitish Kumar who was speaking at the NDA Legislature Party meeting today, earlier in the day. Back to you.
35:33You know, Rohit, stay with me. I want to bring in Pankaj. Pankaj, you know, this is the beauty of power, isn't it?
35:39Because the first time we were talking about when we were talking about the whole thing, whether Nitish Kumar's behavior is okay,
35:45whether it's a mental sound, there was so many commentary on the opposition side of the opposition.
35:51We were talking about how many people were in the studio. But like I said, if you get an electoral mandate,
35:56then everything becomes a thing of the past. Nitish Kumar is looking in the pink of health
36:02when he's addressing his MLA's today.
36:04as well, because it's the answer with the first time, if you look at it,
36:07then it's when we have the announcement to the NDA Flag.
36:10The Honour of NDA Club saying things was that, we also said nothing.
36:15The Honour of NDA Club saying things happened.
36:16But after this, you can see, NDA Club's and other people were talking about it.
36:19He was, he was, he was, he was, he was, he was, and he was,
36:22he was, he was, he was, he was, he was, he was,
36:24he was, he was, he was, he was, he was, he was, he was,
36:26Thank you very much.
36:56Thank you very much.
38:28A little bit.
38:29Five women.
38:30A few women also in the Nitesh Kumar cabinet as well as some young faces.
38:33Pankajha will be will there be a lot of changes that one can expect or will Nitesh go with the old formula.
38:40Look, a few days a moment Aamir Shah and Nitesh Kumar will be оставated in that.
38:45Thank you, Rohit and Pankaj for joining us with that viewers.
39:14You know, the spotlight isn't only one person, something that we speak of.
39:17Earlier on, you know, so much was said about Nitish Kumar, but quietly, and he's been very, very quiet during this election, he has roared back to power and a landslide in Bihar.
39:30And once again, Nitish Kumar is at the center of it.
39:32Despite 15 years in power, anti-incumbency didn't quite bite, and the NDA swept the mandate.
39:38But speaking of Nitish, from the JP movement to Lalu's ally and then rival to the face of Sushasan, Nitish has navigated every political turn and still stayed relevant.
40:08He's done it again, but this time the story is bigger than a swearing-in.
40:21Nitish Kumar's party, along with the BJP, has secured a landslide victory to form the next government in Bihar.
40:29And in a state where he has already helmed the top job for over 15 years, what stands out is this.
40:40Anti-incumbency did not bite.
40:43Despite shifting alliances, political churn, and a long tenure that would test any leader, Nitish remains a central force around whom Bihar's power equations still settle.
41:00Born in Bhaktiarpur, near Patna, Nitish Kumar was an engineer by training, a product of Bihar College of Engineering, before he found his calling in politics.
41:16In the 1970s, as the JP movement swept across northern India, a young Nitish joined the campaign against the emergency.
41:25Standing alongside other future stalwarts like Lalu Prasad Yadav and Sushil Kumar Modi.
41:33That movement forged the first layer of his politics of social justice with discipline, socialism without chaos.
41:43For years, he played cheerleader to Lalu Prasad Yadav, until he broke away to form his own party, the Samatha Party.
41:52It is the Samatha Party, which later evolved into what we know today as the Janathadal United.
42:01The split wasn't just political, it was ideological.
42:05While Lalu's firebrand politics focused on social justice, Nitish represented Sushasan, which promised roads and schools.
42:15When Nitish first took oath as the chief minister, Bihar was looking for change.
42:22And an end to the infamous days of RJD's Jungle Raj.
42:27Nitish promised a new beginning.
42:29Under him, crime rates fell, electricity reached homes.
42:34But as the national political tide shifted, so did Nitish's alliances.
42:44In 2013, he walked out of NDA and ended a 17-year-old alliance with the BJP.
42:51After Narendra Modi was appointed as the chairman of BJP's Lok Sabha election campaign committee,
42:58he said he was walking away to follow secular agenda.
43:02In two years, he had joined hands with his old friend and recent rival, Lalu Yadav,
43:08to form the Mahagat Bandhan, a grand alliance that swept the polls in 2015.
43:14That alliance didn't last very long.
43:36Nitish Kumar left the Mahagat Bandhan over disagreement with Lalu's RJD
43:42and went back to the NDA in August 2017, only to walk away again in 2022.
43:52With the Lok Sabha elections looming, Nitish Kumar joined hands with Congress's Rahul Gandhi
43:58and other opposition parties to form the India bloc.
44:02But he didn't stay there for long either.
44:06He returned to the BJP fold in 2024.
44:18His political U-turns and alliance switches earned him the name Palturam.
44:23But in Bihar's arithmetic, Nitish always managed to land on the winning side.
44:31Across 40 years and many political turns,
44:35Nitish Kumar has remained the heart of Bihar's governance.
44:39As the next mandate unfolds, his journey moves into a new chapter
44:44that is shaped by alliance equations and a more demanding young electorate.
44:49Bureau report, India Today.
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