PATNA: A day before joining the
party, Nishant Kumar, son of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, held two back-to-back meetings on Saturday with sen-ior party leaders and young MLAs. Later that day, he met again with district JD(U) presi-dents at the residence of Janata Dal (United) national working President Sanjay Kumar Jha.
The second meeting was also attended by Union minister
Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh. Earlier in the day, demands arose from within the party to make Nishant, the dep-uty CM.
Nishant, who will be officially joining the party on Sunday, dis-cussed the party's future strat-egy and how to best move for ward after party chief Nitish Kumar, in a surprise move, decided to move to the Rajya Sabha, Those who attended the meeting said that Nishant would be given a bigger respon-sibility in the organisation.
Meanwhile, posters also cropped up outside the state JD(U) office welcoming Nishant to the party fold.
"Nishant Kumar met party youth MLAs and MLCs at the residence of JD(U) national working president Sanjay Jha here on Friday and discussed his future strategies at length. It has been finalised that Nishant will enter active politics after formally joining the JMU) on Sunday, one of the party sour ces said. Senior JD(U) leader
