Appointment of JP Nadda shows BJP leaders are running the party like Congress

The appointment of lightweight J.P. Nadda as BJP’s working president — a post not mentioned in its constitution — shows he will be more of a figurehead while Amit Shah will continue calling the shots. As the BJP gets more entrenched in power, it also appears to be going the Congress way.

Muzaffarpur shows Nitish has dropped the governance ball. He’s too busy playing politics

125-plus children dying in an encephalitis outbreak, even in Bihar, in this day and age is 125-plus too many. Bihar had stopped making headlines for the wrong reasons because CM Nitish Kumar was fixing its broken governance. Muzaffarpur shows he has dropped that ball while being busy with political manoeuvring.

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