Patna: Nitish Kumar seems to have been caught in a bind over the deaths of over 160 children allegedly due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur district in north Bihar. Not only is the Bihar chief minister unable to explain the failure of the state health machinery in tackling the situation, he also faces simultaneous media and opposition onslaught, painting his otherwise good image in a bad light. As he faces flaks for not handling the situation deftly, this arcane healthcare issue has all the potential to turn into a major and much messier political dispute between the Janata Dal-United (JDU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the days to come. Even otherwise, the JDU-BJP alliance hangs by a thread after Nitish's refusal to join the Narendra Modi 2.0 government. The recent attack on Nitish by senior BJP leader and former union health minister, C P Thakur, is an indication that the relationship may be further strained if efforts are not made to reinforce it forthwith. Thakur, a renowned physician himself, raised questions over the inability of the Nitish Kumar government to respond with medical assistance in time and to check the situation from getting worse every day…. Read full this story
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