A poster depicting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the united opposition’s Prime Minister candidate for next year’s Lok Sabha elections was seen pasted outside the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) Patna office on Sunday.

According to reports, the poster, which was put by RJD women’s wing general secretary in Bihar, Poonam Rai, showed Nitish Kumar sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair while being surrounded by top leaders of the allied opposition, including Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu CM Stalin, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress scion Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav.

Nitish Kumar has repeatedly asserted that he wasn’t keen on becoming the Prime Minister, however, his ally party RJD clearly sees the JD(U) leader as one of top candidates to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP juggernaut in the 2024 General Elections.

Reports said the poster was later pulled down to avoid any controversy.

Kumar is viewed as one of the pillars of the Opposition’s united front to wrest power from the BJP in next year’s polls.

On Friday, the Bihar CM, while addressing party workers in Patna said that he will not hold talks with non-BJP parties and will go on a visit across the country in an attempt to build and strengthen opposition unity ahead of the 2024 elections.

The JD(U) chief in a scathing attack on the BJO said that those who vote for the saffron party in next year’s Lok Sabha polls will bring “destruction” onto themselves.

At the party meeting, Nitish Kumar once again reiterated that although he was working tirelessly to forge opposition unity, he isn’t a claimant to the prime minister’s post.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders are protesting outside the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters amid the questioning of Delhi chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam.

Amid Kejriwal’s questioning, AAP MP Raghav Chadha compared Kejriwal to Lord Krishna and called the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kansa. He said Kansa knew that Lord Shri Krishna would finish him and, hence, made every effort and hatched many conspiracies to inflict harm on Shri Krishna. He could not even harm a hair on his head.

Similarly, today the BJP knows that the AAP will bring their downfall and this is why they are trying every possible way to keep them mum, he added.

Before arriving at the CBI office in the national capital on Sunday, the AAP convenor said he will answer all the questions. He said that the BJP leaders are talking about his arrest. The CBI is controlled by BJP and whatever the saffron party will say, the central probe agency will do it, he added.

Kejriwal attacked the Centre saying some anti-national forces do not want India to develop.

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and other AAP leaders such as Kailash Gahlot, Gopal Rai, Imran Hussain, Atishi, Rajkumar Anand, and Saurabh Bhardwaj were protesting outside the CBI office.

The new excise policy allegedly had irregularities and was designed to benefit particular people or groups, pertaining to the liquor policy scam case in which CM Kejriwal has been called to testify. Later, the Delhi government abandoned the new excise policy and reinstated the old one.

Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, a key aide of Kejriwal, is currently inside jail over alleged irregularities in the excise scam. He was arrested by the CBI on February 26 and was arrested by the ED in the same case on March 9.

On Sunday, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has arrived in poll bound Karnataka for a two-day visit. Gandhi is addressing a rally in Kolar, Karnataka, the same place where the defamation episode kickstarted in 2019 that led to Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

The election battle in Karnataka is intensifying, Rahul Gandhi’s rally, finally after a lot of changes in the date for Kolar, is now underway with the senior Congress leader addressing the gathering.

Kolar, is the same place where Rahul Gandhi while campaigning in the 2019 general elections allegedly delivered Modi surname remark. The high voltage political drama has been in action since last month after the Surat court convicted Gandhi for a two year jail term in the defamation suit filed against him for his surname remark.

The Kolar rally is the mark of Gandhi’s official entrance into Congress’s campaign for the Karnataka assembly elections.

Gandhi makes a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that Modi can give thousands of crores to Adani but he has nothing to provide for the poor citizens of this country.

He said that whenever he raised questions to the governement demanding an explaination of PM Modi’s relations with Gautam Adani, his mic was turned off.

Gandhi also made big election promises during his speech, reaching out to the youths, he said Rs 3000 would be provided to graduates every month and Rs 1500 to diploma holders if his party is voted to power, he also added that all these will be brought into implementation in the first cabinet meeting after the formation of the government.

After the Surat court conviction, Rahul Gandhi, who formerly represented Wayanad constituency, Kerala in Lok Sabha was disqualified as a Member of Parliament which led to the opposition constantly attacking at the Centre ruled government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.