Nitish Kumar is again Chief Minister of Bihar |
Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance comprising the BJP and JDU took charge on Monday in Bihar. The new government is headed by the JDU president Nitish Kumar. This will be Nitish`s fourth consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Bihar. He takes oath as the Bihar CM for a record seventh time in a row. The announcement of Nitish`s as the leader of the alliance came after a meeting that was attended by senior NDA leaders in Patna on Sunday. The meeting was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who had been sent from Delhi as the observer for the BJP. After the meeting, Rajnath Sing announced the decision. Singh said “Nitish Kumar was unanimously elected as the NDA legislature party leader. Our MLAs Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were respectively elected as the leader and deputy leader of the BJP legislature party. Nitish Kumar, who met Governor Phagu Chauhan along with leaders like BJP`s Bihar unit president Sanjay Jaiswal to stake a claim for the formation of a new government took oath on Monday evening at the Raj Bhawan. The alliance returned to power in the state with 125 seats, three more than the halfway mark of 122 in the 243-member Legislative Assembly. The BJP is the single largest party in the alliance with 74 seats while the JDU secured 43 seats.
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