Patna,(BiharTimes): Former chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday that he was open to the idea of taking up the chief ministerial post once again. His statement started fuelling speculation of early change in the JD(U) legislative party leadership.
Speaking at a function to mark the 120th birth anniversary celebrations of former President V V Giri at the Shri Krishan Memorial Hall Nitish said he was not running away (nahin bhag rahe hain) from responsibility provided the people gave him wages.
Nitish resigned a day after May 15 Lok Sabha poll results as his party, Janata Dal (United), could win only two out of 40 seats in the state. During the election campaign he used to tell the voters that he had come before them to demand the wages (mazdoori) for the work done by his government in the last over eight years. That is why he referred to the word wages once again on Friday.
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Nitish breaks silence over Gandhi Maidan stampede, concedes it is failure of administrattion
Patna, (BiharTimes): Former chief minister and Janata Dal (United) leader, Nitish Kumar, on Friday finally broke his silence on the Gandhi Maidan stampede.
Talking to the media at Shri Krishna Memorial Hall, exactly a week after Gandhi Maidan stampede in which 33 people lost their lives, he conceded that the administration could not assess the turnout at Gandhi Maidan and failed in the crowd management, though he hastened to add that home secretary Amir Subhani and ADG (Headquarters), Gupteshwar Pandey, are investigating the matter. He held the administration responsible for the tragedy and added that no proper security arrangement was made. 
“There was something lacking in the arrangement and I think that precautionary measures for handling crowd management was missing,” he said adding that one should wait till the final report is submitted.
It needs to be mentioned that when the Chhath tragedy occurred on November 19, 2012 Nitish, within a couple of hours of the incident, virtually gave a clean-chit to the administration as he was the chief minister then.
He also dubbed the Bhojpur gang-rape incident as shameful. Five Dalit women, including minors, were gang-raped by some upper caste goons having links to Ranvir Sena on Wednesday night.