Patna,(BiharTimes): The two ruling alliance partners of Bihar––RJD and JD(U)––do not appear to be on same wave length at least on the issues of ongoing agitation of Madhesis in neighboring country, Nepal.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, during his recent visit to Nepal, made it clear that India should not be dragged into the issues connected with the Madhesis in the Himalayan country's Terai region as it is "an internal affair of Nepal".

"Agitating Madhes leaders told me that the rights of the Madhesis had been curtailed, so they were compelled to launch an agitation. I told them it is an internal matter of Nepal and (they should) resolve it within Nepal," Nitish Kumar said.

Nitish visited Kathmandu to attend the 13th general convention of the Nepali Congress. The Madhesis live in the southern region of Nepal and are closely linked with the people of Bihar and UP. They form 36 per cent of Nepal's 2.9 crore population and are of Indian origin.

The Madhesis are agitating for the last few months over the new constitution adopted by Nepal last year and are demanding amendments in it to address the interests of people living in the Terai regions of the Himalayan republic.

But Kumar’s alliance partner RJD has a different take and had expressed its solidarity towards agitating Madhes activists.

"We stand by our Madhesi brothers, who are fighting discrimination under the newly adopted Nepali constitution," said former Union minister and RJD vice president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh in a Press briefing at party office in Patna sometimes back. Singh was accompanied by other senior party leaders, including state chief Ram Chandra Purbey.

Singh had also announced that party chief Lalu Prasad will visit the neighbouring country with a delegation to support their cause.

“In logo se humara roti-beti ka sambandh hai(We have very strong social relationship with these people”), said Singh.

Interestingly, last year when Kumar has planned to visit the neighbouring country after the earthquake, the external affairs ministry had asked him to defer his visit and undertake it at a "more opportune" time.
Kumar is having a nice personal equation with many senior political leaders of Nepal and his goodwill visit may be of some help to government of India to understand ground situation as its relationship matters a lot for the country.