Bihar: Nitish Kumar elected JD(U) legislature party leader, will take oath as CM on November 20

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Wednesday unanimously elected as the legislature party leader of the Janata Dal (United).

The decision was taken during a meeting of newly elected MLAs in Patna. The JD(U) chief is also set to be elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in the state later in the day, after which he will tender his resignation as head of the outgoing government to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.

The developments come a day ahead of Kumar's swearing-in as the Bihar chief minister again at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna. This will be the tenth time that the JD(U) chief will take oath as the state's chief minister.

On Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party also elected Samrat Choudhary as its legislature party leader in Bihar, while Vijay Kumar Sinha was named as the deputy legislature party leader, The Hindu reported.

Chaudhary and Sinha will continue as deputy chief ministers after the formation of the new government, The New Indian Express reported.

On Monday, Kumar submitted the Cabinet's recommendation to dissolve the current Assembly to the governor. All ministers subsequently tendered their resignations.

The ruling NDA won the Bihar Assembly elections on Friday, bagging 202 of the 243 total seats.

The tally of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan was 35 seats.

As part of the NDA, Kumar's JD(U) won 85 seats, almost doubling its tally of 43 seats from the 2020 polls. The BJP emerged as the single largest in terms of seat share after winning 89 of the 101 constituencies it contested, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19.

From the Opposition alliance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal won 25 seats, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation clinched two. The Congress won six seats.

A party or an alliance needs 122 seats in the 243-member Assembly to form the government.

Source: Scroll
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