Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called a meeting of all MLAs and MPs of his party, the Janata Dal-United (JDU), on Tuesday, amid reports of a widening rift with his dominant alliance partner, the BJP. This comes after top JDU leader RCP Singh, Kumar’s lone man in the Modi cabinet and seen close to the BJP, quit the party and lashed out at the Bihar chief minister.

Meanwhile, authorities on Monday demolished the encroachment at a Noida housing society by Shrikant Tyagi, the self-proclaimed BJP worker in the news for allegedly abusing and assaulting a woman last week.