patna amid growing confusion in the opposition camp about who will eventually be the pm candidate bihar chief minister nitish kumar said the issue would be settled after deliberations with all leaders soon but reiterated that he is not in the race for the countrys top jobnitish returned to patna on thursday after spending three days in the national capital meeting scores of leaders from the opposition camp including congress leader rahul gandhi and holding discussions about forming a powerful alliance to take on the might of prime minister narendra modiwe will together decide over who will be the prime ministerial face from the opposition camp but i am surely not in the race nitish said talking to reporters at the patna airport after returning from gaya where he inaugurated indias longest rubber damstating he had very fruitful talks with the opposition leaders nitish hoped the outcome of the 2024 lok sabha polls would be wonderful if they all came togetheraccording to him the opposition leaders looked pleased over the unity efforts as they felt something is being done for the countrys developmentalthough he met all the top opposition leaders available in delhi at that time he failed to meet congress chief sonia gandhi since she was away from the country the chief minister now plans to meet gandhi once she returns and west bengal chief minister mamata banerjee i had talks with her we will decide when to meet he said on being asked by reporters when he would be meeting mamatalater the chief minister visited 10 circular road residence of rjd chief lalu prasad and had a closeddoor meeting with him it is believed that nitish briefed the rjd chief about his meeting with the various opposition leaders in the national capital and the response he got from them over his unity efforts nitish returned to the sevenparty grand alliance last month after dumping erstwhile partner bjp in the state