Bettiah/UNI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that he would start an exercise to unite the opposition at the national level after March this year to counter BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Kumar, during interaction with media persons on the first day of the "Samadhan Yatra" scheduled to cover the entire state to take stock of ongoing development works, said that he had embarked on a yatra to review various development and welfare schemes.

It would provide him with the opportunity to personally see whether his directives given earlier were complied with or whether any shortcomings remained left, he added.

Responding to a query about his mission to unite opposition at the national level, the Bihar CM said that at present he was more concerned to see whether schemes and projects started by his government were completed or not.

If completed, it was a matter of pleasure but if there remained lacunae, he had directed authorities concerned to take corrective measures to do the needful for completing the same, he added.

Kumar said that his "Samadhan Yatra" would continue till February this year. Thereafter, the winter session of the Bihar legislature would begin which would continue till the end of March.

The Chief Minister said that after the end of the winter session of the Bihar Legislature, he would look into the possibility of uniting opposition at the national level.

For this purpose, he could start an exercise afresh, he added.

As it is, Kumar after deserting NDA and joining hands with Grand Alliance to form a new government visited Delhi in September last year and met a number of top opposition leaders including the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Gandhi had assured Kumar to take a call on his proposal after the election of a new party president and the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi.

Kumar could again start exercises for uniting opposition at the national after March to take on BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

He had made s call to oust the BJP government from power at the Centre, saying it had miserably failed on all fronts and people were feeling let down.