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Nitish Kumar: In the meeting of newly elected MLAs of alliance partners on Wednesday, JDU supremo Nitish Kumar was informed about NDA in Bihar. Was elected leader of.
Nitish Kumar: JDU supremo Nitish Kumar was elected the leader of NDA in Bihar in the meeting of newly elected MLAs of alliance partners on Wednesday. Nitish Kumar will take oath as Chief Minister for a record 10th time at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna on Thursday. The proposal of NDA leader was put forward by JDU’s Vijay Chaudhary and BJP leaders Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha supported it. Senior JD(U) leader Shravan Kumar said that MLAs of LJP(RV), HAM and RLM also supported the proposal. Earlier, the newly elected MLAs of the party elected Nitish Kumar as the leader of JDU legislative party. NDA returned to power in Bihar by winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly. In which BJP got 89 seats, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5 and RLM 4 seats. After being elected leader of NDA, Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to the Governor on Wednesday. He staked claim to form a new government. Before this, during the meeting of newly elected MLAs on Wednesday in Patna, the capital of Bihar, JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar was elected the leader of the legislative party.
Will work for the welfare of the state
Minister of State Shravan Kumar said that this decision was taken before the meeting of NDA constituents. Speaking to PTI, Shravan Kumar said that the newly elected MLAs have elected Nitish Kumar as the leader of the JD(U) legislative party. He told that the meeting was held in ‘Samvad’ located at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. All the newly elected MLAs and 22 Legislative Council members of the party participated in the meeting. Shravan Kumar said that the proposal to elect Nitish Kumar as the leader of JD(U) legislative party was put forward by party leaders Vijay Chaudhary and Umesh Kushwaha and senior JD(U) leader Bijendra Yadav supported it. Later, JD(U) working national president Sanjay Jha and Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh ‘Lalan’ also supported this proposal. The JD(U) leader said that after being elected the leader of the JD(U) legislature party, Nitish Kumar addressed all the party leaders present at the meeting and asked them to work tirelessly for the welfare of the state. Shravan Kumar said that Nitish Kumar will take oath as the CM of Bihar for the record 10th time on Thursday at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna.
Met with Governor Arif Mohammad Khan
Nitish Kumar was elected the leader of NDA during the meeting of the constituent parties of the five-party alliance. He said that the JD(U) supremo met Governor Arif Mohammad Khan in the evening. Requested the Governor to start the process of formation of the new government. NDA returned to power in Bihar by winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly, in which BJP got 89, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5 and RLM 4 seats. Nitish Kumar, who was the Chief Minister of the state for the longest time, remained unperturbed by the criticism and the critics’ allegations that the BJP wanted to treat him like Shinde. The gesture was towards his former Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde, who was ousted from power by the BJP after it outperformed Shiv Sena in the assembly elections in the western state. Born in 1951 in Bakhtiyarpur, Bihar, Nitish Kumar entered politics during the JP movement. He joined the Janata Party and contested his first assembly election in 1977, but lost. His first election victory came in 1985.
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