Patna: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday asserted that governance in Bihar had “gone for a toss” as the BJP has effectively “mentally retired” Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, treating the JD(U) strongman as a liability.

“The governance in Bihar is on a vacation as the BJP has ‘mentally retired’ Nitish and wants to grab power under the pretext of vote theft. But Rahul Gandhi, who embarked on a fortnight-long Voters’ Adhikar Yatra and made the people of Bihar aware of their rights, will ensure that ‘vote theft’ does not recur in Bihar, as it did earlier in Maharashtra and Haryana,” Kharge said while chairing the first Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Patna since Independence.

The last CWC meeting in Patna was held in 1940, attended by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal

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