Chosen for the nation’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna a day forward of his start anniversary, Karpoori Thakur has been the veritable “Jan Nayak” or folks’s hero of politics in Bihar, whose legacy events chopping throughout ideologies search to declare. The announcement by the Centre has been greeted by a shifting tribute from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and an expression of gratitude from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whose JD(U) has deliberate an enormous rally to mark the start anniversary on Wednesday. Born in 1924 in a village in Samastipur district which has since been re-named after him, Thakur, who had two short-lived tenures because the Chief Minister, started his political activism as a younger scholar throughout the Quit India which prompted him to spend a number of months in jail.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday thanked the Narendra Modi authorities for conferring Bharat Ratna on his mentor Karpoori Thakur however taunted the ruling dispensation on the Centre for not acknowledging that the transfer adopted his “relentless demands”. At a rally organised by the JD(U) right here on the one hundredth start anniversary of late Karpoori Thakur, Kumar made it clear that the very best civilian honour was “fulfilment of only one of our many demands”.
However, Nitish Kumar’s edited tweet thanking Prime Minister for Bharat Ratna for Karpoori Thakur made tongues twist about his gharwapsi to NDA. India TV opinion ballot ‘Is the Modi authorities’s decision to confer Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur a sign of Nitish Kumar joining palms with the BJP once more?’ was additionally on the identical traces.
While 68 per cent stated it was a transparent indication of Nitish Kumar’s one more ditch to the alliance, 24 per cent have been of the view that he’ll stick to the INDIA bloc. 8 per cent have been undecided. 
