Mission 2024: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to Meet CPI(M) Leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI's D Raja in Delhi Tomorrow

New Delhi, September 5: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is scheduled to meet CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI leader D Raja in Delhi on Tuesday. The Janata Dal (United) leader arrived in the national capital on Monday.

Kumar, who snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last month, on Sunday said his only goal is to work for uniting the Opposition to unseat the saffron party from power at the Centre. Kumar's visit to Delhi comes amidst the buzz within the JD(U) that he may emerge as the Opposition's prime ministerial face in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Yechury had hit out at Kumar in 2017 when the JD(U) chief had parted ways with the grand alliance, accusing the Bihar chief minister of "political opportunism". When Kumar dumped the BJP last month, Yechury had said the saffron party has got a "taste of its own medicine", referring to the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra after the saffron party backed Shiv Sena rebels. Mission 2024: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Meets Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi in Delhi.

Asked about Kumar's political future, Yechury, a key Opposition strategist, had said it was "too early" to comment on it. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader had, however, welcomed the "formation of a secular Mahagathbandhan government"in Bihar during his meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav last month.

After being sworn-in as Kumar's deputy, Yadav met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as well as Yechury and Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D Raja.

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