Nitish Kumar likes to wear his watch with the dial on the inside of the wrist. If you ask him why, he might dismiss it as just an old habit, but it’s one way to keep an eye on the time without others noticing. On October 2, Gandhi Jayanti day, the Janata Dal (United) boss and Bihar chief minister again showed his keen sense of timing as his government released the data it had collected from the caste count conducted earlier this year.
It could have done so immediately after the Supreme Court, on September 6, adjournedRavi Shankar Prasad alleged that the numerical strength of the castes opposed to Nitish and Rashtriya Janata Dal patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav has been manipulated—underlines how difficult it has become for the BJP to articulate a consistent political response.
