India News: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in recent times has become very vocal against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's prime ministerial ambitions.

Political analysts say there could be two reasons why Nitish is opposing Narendra Modi. One, the tainted past of Narendra Modi in Gujarat 2002 riots and second and most importantly, Nitish's strategy to remain popular among the minority, who have played an important role for winning him the polls in the past.

Addressing some 1,300 delegates recently of the JD-U, the second-largest member of the NDA, Nitish Kumar said that his party would never give up on secularism.

Taking a dig at Modi, Nitish said that the state's model of development cannot be a possible answer to India's ills, and his Janata Dal-United also set a December deadline for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to name its prime ministerial candidate.