PATNA, Feb. 5 -- Chief minister Nitish Kumar and Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav were on Thursday engaged in sporadic verbal duels over Bihar story in Bihar Legislative Assembly, with the Opposition and treasury benches holding on to expected lines.

Giving government's reply on the motion of thanks to the governor's address to the joint session of both Houses, Kumar spoke at length on 'Bihar's turnaround story' and government's resolve to continue with the development work to make it a developed state, while repeatedly asserting that "nothing had been done by the previous government".

He also took on Tejashwi whenever the latter tried to interrupt with posers, reminding him that he (Nitish) was contemporary to the latter's fa...