Nitish claims help of seven political events and 164 MLAs, Tejashwi to be deputy chief minister
Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar met state governor Phagu Chauhan and submitted his resignation shortly after snapping ties with the NDA on Tuesday. The choice to stop the coalition authorities was taken at a gathering with all JD(U) MPs and MLAs right here Tuesday morning. Mr Kumar chaired the assembly at his official residence right here.
“The MPs and MLAs of my get together met at present and determined to snap ties with the NDA authorities. I met the governor and resigned as chief minister of Bihar”, Mr Kumar stated after submitting his resignation to the Bihar governor at Raj Bhavan.
After he submitted his resignation, Mr Kumar visited the residence of Rabri Devi in Patna, the place Congress and Left get together leaders had met earlier to debate the method to help the JD(U) in forming the “Mahagathbandhan” authorities.
Later, after holding a short dialogue with the alliance leaders, Mr Nitish Kumar met the governor for the second time on Tuesday and staked declare to forming a Mahagathbandhan authorities in Bihar. RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav accompanied him to the governor’s home and submitted an inventory of 164 MLAs.
“I’ve the help of seven political events and 164 MLAs. The agenda of this authorities might be to work for the event of the state. There might be no compromise on corruption”, chief minister Nitish Kumar stated after assembly the governor. He stated he had submitted the letters of help and can watch for the governor to name him to kind the following authorities.
The swearing-in of the brand new Nitish Kumar authorities is more likely to happen at 4 pm on Wednesday on the Raj Bhavan. RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav is more likely to be the deputy chief minister, and the brand new Meeting Speaker might be from the RJD.
Tejashwi Yadav stated: “Historical past tells that the BJP destroys the events with whom it types an alliance. We’ve got seen this occurring elsewhere as nicely.”
Mr Nitish Kumar stated that he has submitted the letters of help and would watch for the governor to name him to kind the following authorities.
When requested why he selected to finish his ties with the BJP-NDA, Mr Kumar stated: “A scenario was being created to divide society, which I didn’t like. There are numerous different issues which didn’t go nicely with my get together leaders”.
What triggered battle: JD(U) leaders stated that there have been many points which triggered a battle with the BJP. They stated Mr Kumar, on the assembly, stated the BJP tried to weaken his authorities on many events. They stated the get together is satisfied that it was the BJP and Chirag Paswan who was behind the JD(U)’s poor present within the 2020 Meeting elections. The JD(U) was diminished to the third place, with 45 seats, within the final Meeting elections.
Nitish Kumar was additionally upset when BJP dominated the Cupboard formation in 2020 and put two deputy chief ministers. He additionally sees the complete R.C.P. Singh episode as a part of the BJP’s conspiracy to trigger a break up within the JD(U).
Get together leaders stated Mr Kumar felt on many events that there wasn’t sufficient help regardless of the “double-engine” authorities. He additionally discovered no help from the BJP when the Meeting Speaker raised questions concerning the regulation and order situation. The scenario received out of hand in March and resulted in a confrontation between the Speaker and the chief minister on the ground of the Home.
The Bihar Legislative Meeting contains 243 seats, bringing the bulk mark to 122 seats. The RJD has 79 MLAs, JD(U) 45, Congress 19, Left 16 and Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM 4 seats. The BJP, which is the second-largest get together in Bihar, has 77 MLAs within the Meeting.
As politics heated up in Patna after the NDA authorities collapsed, the BJP gave the impression to be on the backfoot. It accused Nitish Kumar of “betraying the individuals of Bihar by switching companions”.
Senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad, who landed in Patna instantly after Mr Kumar resigned, stated: “He (Nitish Kumar) ended his ties with the Mahagathbandhan on the problem of corruption, and now he has as soon as once more returned to their camp. This has been his behavior to change sides. Does he even bear in mind what he used to say throughout elections? He has betrayed the individuals of Bihar and insulted the mandate by switching sides”.
In 2013, Nitish Kumar and his JD(U) break up from the BJP after Narendra Modi was declared because the NDA’s PM face. Two years later, in 2015, he joined fingers together with his arch-rivals Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD and the Congress to kind a Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. He fought the elections and returned as Bihar CM.
In 2017, Nitish broke ties with the Mahagathbandhan over corruption prices towards then deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, saying he had “zero tolerance for corruption”.
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