Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, two major NDA constituent parties met to elect their legislative party leaders. Within an hour, all JDU MLAs unanimously elected Nitish Kumar as their leader.
Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar is slated to be Bihar Chief Minister again with his party electing him as its leader. However, with the BJP after the landslide victory in Bihar has a bigger bargaining chip this time. Will Chirag Paswan have a say? Will there be a 1-1 deputy Chief Minister formula? Only tomorrow will have the answer.
A meeting to elect the JDU legislative party leader began at CM Nitish Kumar’s residence on Ek Aney Marg. All 85 JDU MLAs were present. They unanimously elected Nitish Kumar as the legislative party leader. Even before this meeting, it was clear that only one name would be considered for the JDU legislative party leader: Nitish Kumar himself.
Vijay Kumar Sinha and Samrat Chaudhary will again become Deputy CMs
Meanwhile, a major decision was made at the BJP Legislature Party meeting. The BJP has repeated both of its Deputy Chief Ministers. Samrat Chaudhary has been elected leader of the Bihar BJP Legislature Party, while Vijay Kumar Sinha has been elected deputy leader of the BJP Legislature Party. This means it has been confirmed that Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha will once again serve as Deputy Chief Ministers of Bihar.
NDA Legislature Party meeting at 3.30 pm
As soon as the BJP elects its legislative party leader, all NDA MLAs will gather in the Central Hall of the Assembly at 3:30 pm to elect the leader of the entire NDA legislative party. After this, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will proceed to Raj Bhavan and submit his resignation. He will also submit to the Governor a list of cabinet members who will be sworn in tomorrow as ministers in the new Bihar government.
