In pics: How Lalu, Nitish celebrated Bihar victory
Updated On Nov 09, 2015 01:36 AM IST
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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad during a press conference after Grand Alliance’s victory in Bihar elections, in Patna. (Ajay Aggarwal/ HT Photo)
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(From left) President of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee Ashok Choudhary, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad during a press conference in Patna. (Ajay Aggarwal/ HT Photo)
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Bruised after the BJP’s massive win in Bihar in last year’s general election, the politically savvy Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar buried their differences and revived an old alliance going back to the 1970s to fight a common enemy in the key assembly election. (Arun Sharma/ HT Photo)
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi with chief minister Nitish Kumar after the results of the Bihar elections were out, in Patna. (Arun Sharma/ HT Photo)
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According to Arun Sinha, author of ‘Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar’, what brought Lalu and Nitish some 40 years ago together during the socialist movement launched by Jayaprakash Narayan was their shared need for each other. (Arun Sharma/ HT Photo)
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