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In Ganga’s Name

n 2014, when Narendra Modi decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls (Mother Ganga has called me).” With the 2024 general election less than two years away, it’s the turn of Bihar chief minister to invoke the holy river. Projecting him as an alternative to Modi, his supporters cheered him on with slogans like “ (What should our PM be like, just like Nitish)” when the chief minister launched the Har Ghar Gangajal scheme in Rajgir town on November 27. Will Nitish bow to the will of the people and throw his hat in the ring?

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