Babulal Marandi, too, is reluctant to go with Nitish now. Sources say a few days ago, Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmad Patel met with Marandi and said that if he was ready to merge his party with another, then why not the Congress? “The Congress is everywhere in Jharkhand. Where is JD (U)?” According to sources, Ahmad Patel then had Marandi speak with party Vice-President with Rahul Gandhi. Now in a changed political atmosphere Marandi is now asking JD (U) strategists what he will get in exchange for his party’s merger with JD (U). Is the JD (U) ready to send him to the Rajya Sabha? So many takers; what will poor Nitish do?