Bhubaneswar, March 5 -- Hours after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar confirmed his Rajya Sabha nomination, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Mrityunjay Tiwari on Thursday said that the announcement came as a shock just months after the conclusion of the assembly elections and termed it a "huge political abduction".

He further said that the annoucement exposed the "attitude" of the BJP towards their allies.

"A major upheaval in Bihar's politics has suddenly been visible since yesterday. No one could have anticipated that the BJP would remove Chief Minister Nitish Kumar so quickly after the elections, but our leader Tejashwi Yadav had been consistently saying that the BJP would destroy the JDU and oust Nitish Kumar from the Chief Minister's ch...