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In 1998, the NDA formed government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Fernandes was made the defence minister. Nitish said he also consumed his urine for some days. “It had benefited me,” he said.Nitish recalled how the erstwhile Samata Party, which later merged into the JD(U), had been formed under the leadership of Fernandes on October 19, 1994. “We struggled for years under the guidance of George Saheb. PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar on Friday said had former Union minister George Fernandes not formed a separate party in 1994, he would not have got an opportunity to serve people of this state.Addressing a condolence meeting organized by JD(U) in the memory of Fernandes, Nitish said his life-size statue with handcuffs would be set up at an important place in Muzaffarpur from where he had won the Lok Sabha election several times, including in 1977 from behind the bars..