Patna, Feb. 26 -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's son Nishant on Tuesday hoped that the JD(U), headed by his father, would improve its performance in the Assembly polls due later this year, as compared with 2020, when it lost the status of senior NDA partner in the state.

In his most candid conversation with the press so far, the reclusive 47-year-old urged the people to vote for the party and asked the cadre to pull up its socks, while keeping cards close to the chest on speculations about his own entry into politics.

He was mobbed by journalists at the memorial of his mother Manju Sinha, where he had come with his father to pay tributes on her birth anniversary.

The normally reticent Nishant broke into a wide grin when asked about ...