REACHING OUT

HOME MINISTER Rajnath Singh visited senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav at his residence on Wednesday. While the stated purpose of the visit was to follow up on the decision to make Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a member of a committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commemorate the birth centenary of Jan Sangh ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, recent political developments in Bihar led to speculation that the visit was more than that. Adding grist to the rumour mill was the observation by a senior JD(U) leader from Bihar that there are no permanent enemies or friends in politics and “politics is a game of possibilities”.