New Delhi: Nitish Kumar said while campaigning in Bihar’s Purnea for the state polls that end on Saturday. Nitish Kumar’s statement at a rally that the Bihar election is his last, clarified later by his aides, did not pass without biting comments from his opposition rival Tejashwi Yadav and his former ally turned chief critic Chirag Paswan.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the opposition’s chief ministerial candidate, remarked that he was right about Nitish Kumar all along. Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan seized the Chief Minister’s remarks to appeal to people not to waste their votes on any candidate of the ruling Janata Dal United.

After 15 years in power, Nitish Kumar, is facing a tough re-election bid. Besides signs of anti-incumbency, the Chief Minister is up against multiple rivals, including Chirag Paswan, who was his ally until he declared a solo campaign with the sole agenda of ousting Nitish Kumar.