JD-U supremo and former chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Published: August 4, 2026, 3:27 PM IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Rajya Sabha MP Nitish Kumar during a meeting at the Parliament House (PTI image)
New Delhi: In a significant political development a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA lost its seat at Bankipur assembly seat in Bihar, JD-U supremo and former chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day after the BJP lost Patna’s Bankipur assembly seat in a by-election.
Kumar, a Rajya Sabha MP, was accompanied by JD-U leaders — Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Rajya Sabha MP and national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha – in his meeting with the prime minister.
“Rajya Sabha MP Shri @NitishKumar Ji met PM @narendramodi earlier today,” the prime minister’s office said in a post on ‘X’.
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Kumar said he paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at his office room in the Parliament House complex here.
The by-election at Bankipur, considered a BJP bastion, was necessitated after BJP president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat following his election to Rajya Sabha after he assumed the charge of party chiefPoll strategist-turned-politician and Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor defeated BJP’s Neeraj Kumar by a margin of 19,324 votes.
Kumar, the ten-time chief minister of Bihar, resigned from the state’s top post in April, following which, for the first time, a BJP leader, Samrat Choudhary, assumed charge as chief ministerThe BJP and JD-U are running a coalition government in Bihar.
