Before the selection of candidates during the discussion probably Yashwant Sinha said to Didi that he will muster the majority votes through his friends scattered in almost all the parties sources say. After the finalization of the name, sources say Sinha called Nitish Kumar, his old friend, two times phone was not picked up, and on the third chance in discussions, the source says Kumar said that before the announcement of Mrs Murmu as a candidate, PM and HM both talked to him on the selection of candidate and now how he goes back from the commitments. Sinha could not utter a single word and his claim that when one Odiya supports Odiya why not one Bihari to suppler Bihari could not melt the ice?