New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday is set to flag off NDA's Sankalp rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan along with state's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Both the ministers will be sharing the dias after a decade as last time they were seen together in 2009 in a political rally in Ludhiana.
This will also be Modi's maiden appearance at Gandhi Maidan since he became the Prime Minister.
He was here in October 2013 in a political rally organized in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Modi's rally soon turned into a tragic venue as the massive election rally was rocked by the series of bombs, killing six and injuring 85.
All Union ministers from Bihar, including Ramvilas Paswan, will share the stage with Modi.
Nitish Kumar’s party JD(U) left the NDA in June 2013 and formed a Grand Alliance with the RJD and Congress before the 2015 Assembly elections.
However, in July 2017, he joined the NDA again.
Before forging with the Modi-led party, Kumar was a strong critic of Modi.
On Friday, Modi greeted Kumar on his birthday. Modi referred Kumar as "friend” and praised him for pulling the state “out of the shadows of years of misrule”.
After the rally, a seat-sharing arrangement of Bihar's grand alliance for the Lok Sabha elections is expected to be declared.
