Amit Shah called up Nitish Kumar a day before the Bihar chief minister quit the BJP and was assured he had “nothing to worry”, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi told NDTV on Wednesday. By in the first confession that he tried to save the alliance. “Two days ago, Amit Shah called up Nitish Kumar. Nitish said there was nothing to worry about. PM [Narendra] Modi also spoke to Nitish several times in the last one-and-a-half years, but he never complained.” Party sources had earlier denied that there was any such proposal.