Now CPI-M wooing Nitish Kumar

KOLKATA - After the Congress, it is now the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that is wooing Janata Dal-United leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for a post-alliance with the Left-led Third Front grouping.

CPI-M leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Budhhadeb Bhattacharjee Thursday said that the party was in constant touch with Nitish Kumar.

‘I know Nitish Kumar will come with us. He will neither go with the Congress nor with the BJP. We are in regular talks,’ Bhattacharjee said in Bengali at a public meeting here.