The ruling alliance in Bihar has taken a hit after Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, deputy chief minister and Lalu Prasad's son, was booked in a graft case.

Sources added that Sonia intervened at the insistence of JD(U) leaders, who wanted to see that the issue does not precipitate the crisis further.

RJD ministers are learnt to have made up their mind to quit Nitish Kumar's cabinet and offer outside support to the government in Bihar

Modi also said that nothing much should be read into the “issue-based” friendship between Nitish Kumar and the National Democratic Alliance

Tejaswi is at a centre of a row after his name was figured in an FIR registered by the CBI in a corruption case. The FIR also included the names of his parents Lalu and former CM Rabri Devi.

Ramachandra Guha said India's oldest political party was without any leader and that there is little chance of its revival under the present dispensation

JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar told India TV that the RJD should come out with concrete facts in public on accusations against Tejaswi and that the party should understand the ‘sentiments’.

Few days ago, Yadav had during a press conference here asked a journalist to leave the room and had even called him ‘anti-national’.

A day after Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) asked Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav to ‘place facts before the public to dispel graft charges’, just stopping short of demanding his resignation, the latter has ruled out the possibility of quitting

Nitish told his leaders that he would not tolerate any stain on the clean image of his government and people against whom accusations have been levelled should quit the post

JD(U) today asked the RJD to place facts before the public to dispel graft charges against Tejashwi Yadav.

Even as troubles spiral around the Congress-RJD-JD(U) ‘mahagathbandhan’ in Bihar, the Opposition could announce the name of a joint candidate for the vice-president poll following the meeting of non-NDA here today

The BJP today offered outside support to the Nitish Kumar government if he chooses to break the 'Mahagathbandhan' alliance in Bihar.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has cancelled his weekly Lok Samvad programme for Monday. The Chief Minister office, on Sunday, issued a statement citing ill health of Nitish as the reason for cancellation of the programme

Kumar, who had earlier accepted the resignation letters of four of his ministers for their "involvement" in corruption cases, should now take the same step against his deputy, he told reporters here.

Nitish Kumar, who is presently in Rajgir, has told his close confidants that he will not drop Tejashwi from his cabinet till the time the CBI files chargesheet against him.

Rahul was absent when the Congress-JD(U) spat broke out. The sparring began after Azad attacked Kumar for breaking ranks with the opposition and supporting NDA's presidential pick Ram Nath Kovind.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad over alleged benami land deals, calling him the "Robert Vadra of Bihar".

The meeting was organised in the backdrop of Kumar’s campaign to make the state drug-free. Last year, Kumar had banned sale and consumption of liquor across the state.

Nitish’s statement comes at a time when opposition parties, including both his allies in the state – RJD and Congress – are on an offensive against the government over the haphazard launch of the GST