NITISH, THE NAYSAYER

Nitish Kumar wants voters to ignore election surveys predicting a dip in JD(U)’s fortunes. He has been repeatedly rejecting these predictions, but they are making the usually unruffled CM irritable: “Chhapne ke liye chehra hona chahiye,” he snapped at photographers at a rally in Begusarai on February 12, apparently taking a dig at the media coverage of Narendra Modi and Lalu Prasad.