BJP President JP Nadda and Union Interior Minister Amit Shah will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the head of JD (U) and Bihar CM will appoint Nitish Kumar in Patna on Monday.
The head of JD (U) will be sworn in as Bihar’s prime minister for a fourth consecutive term today after a close-quarters contest to win the Bihar assembly elections, the results of which were released late at night. November 10.
On Sunday, Kumar met with the Governor of Bihar, Phagu Chauhan, to call for the formation of the government in the state after the NDA emerged victorious in elections for the 243-member Bihar assembly. The swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet is likely to take place around 4.30 pm this afternoon.
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At a meeting on Sunday morning, NDA leaders had elected Nitish Kumar as the leader of the NDA’s legislative party, securing his return as prime minister of Bihar for the fourth time.
In another surprising development, BJP’s Katihar MLA: Tarkishore Prasad will take over as deputy minister in place of Sushil Kumar Modi, who was in command during the previous period. Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav will not be attending Bihar CM Design Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in ceremony to be held in Patna today.
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Throughout a rigorous election campaign amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic, the Bharatiya Janata Party had maintained that, in the event of an NDA victory, incumbent Nitish Kumar would be the Prime Minister of Bihar. Kumar’s own party, Janata Dal (United), however, did not put on a very good show in the battle for Bihar. In the 243-seat Bihar Legislative Assembly, the JD (U) only managed to win 43 seats, while two other constituents of the NDA won 8 seats. The BJP won with 74 seats helping the National Democratic Alliance to secure a majority of 125 seats in the assembly.
After the results were declared, the RJD emerged as the largest party with 75 seats, while Congress won only 19 of the 70 seats it had been assigned to contest as part of the Grand Alliance.
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