Rakesh Bedi & R Prasad / ET
The stubbled face of Nitish Kumar, the Bihar chief minister, may be screaming, at times threateningly, from all the posters on the rooftops of Patna, but the man has small beginnings. Quite small, in fact. His ancestral house, thatched roof and cowpatted walls and all, in Kalyan Bigha, in Harnaut, is still extant, and Nitish still finds the time, away from the tiring rigours of dog-eat-dog politics, to visit his birthplace, either to inaugurate something new or just to score some television brownie points by going down to his poor roots.
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Sitaram, the old and haggard caretaker who hobbles around with the help of a walking stick, says the CM comes four or five times a year and sometimes even has food. Inside the house, kept in deliberate poverty, there is no electricity. Nitish, says Sitaram, has vowed that he won't electrify the house unless his entire state is powered up. more
The stubbled face of Nitish Kumar, the Bihar chief minister, may be screaming, at times threateningly, from all the posters on the rooftops of Patna, but the man has small beginnings. Quite small, in fact. His ancestral house, thatched roof and cowpatted walls and all, in Kalyan Bigha, in Harnaut, is still extant, and Nitish still finds the time, away from the tiring rigours of dog-eat-dog politics, to visit his birthplace, either to inaugurate something new or just to score some television brownie points by going down to his poor roots.
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Sitaram, the old and haggard caretaker who hobbles around with the help of a walking stick, says the CM comes four or five times a year and sometimes even has food. Inside the house, kept in deliberate poverty, there is no electricity. Nitish, says Sitaram, has vowed that he won't electrify the house unless his entire state is powered up. more
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