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  • JP motion to Advani rath yatra: How Bihar occasions have influenced nationwide politics!

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Bihar is not any stranger to being on the centre of a tectonic shift in nationwide politics fuelled by means of turbulent regional forces.

    On Tuesday, an afternoon full of prime drama, Leader Minister Nitish Kumar severed ties with best friend BJP and embraced the Mahagathbandhan or grand alliance, bringing the highlight on Bihar and its complicated matrix of politics.

    From the landmark Bihar motion led by means of scholars in Nineteen Seventies that emanated from Patna to preventing of Lal Krishna Advani’s Ayodhya rath yatra by means of then leader minister Lalu Yadav in Samastipur, those occasions have prompt a series of reactions that ended in primary ruptures within the realm of country politics, throwing ruling events out of seats of energy or resulting in upward thrust of sudden and from time to time risky alliances.

    The Bihar motion, which in the end got here to be referred to as the JP motion as veteran socialist chief Jayaprakash Narayan spearheaded it, had a ripple impact from Patna to Delhi and the echoes of his fiery speeches at Gandhi Maidan within the Bihar capital had reverberations in Ramlila Maidan within the nationwide capital.

    Narayan’s Bihar motion right through the turbulent 70s in the end ended in the Emergency from 1975-77.

    He exhorted school and college scholars within the state to throw themselves into what he had envisaged as a large churn of Indian politics towards corruption.

    Beneath the firebrand JP, the agitation in Bihar took the form of a Sampoorna Kranti or general revolution and the preliminary call for for resignation of the then Ghafoor executive within the state in the end become a bigger call for for dismissal of Indira Gandhi executive.

    After the Emergency was once over and normal elections have been held, Congress was once ousted and a Janata Birthday celebration-led executive got here into energy with Morarji Desai because the high minister.

    The JP motion has had such private and emotional have an effect on on many who Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav, Sushil Kumar Modi and Sharad Yadav, all of whom have been engrossed in scholars politics again then, regularly describe themselves as “fabricated from JP motion”.

    Each Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar, who possibly bonded right through the coed motion, have had ‘friend-turned-foe-turned-friend’ moments of their careers, which additionally has impacted each regional and in flip nationwide politics.

    RJD and JD(U), each descendants of the Janata Dal birthday party, play a the most important position on the subject of sewing energy alliances to shape a central authority.

    And as Kumar returns to the Mahagathbandhan, from which he had walked out of in 2017 submit the 2015 elections, many have additionally begun to take a position if the transfer may have ramifications at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    Many scholar leaders in Patna, PTI spoke to, concurred that “this kind of political disaster being observed lately isn’t new to Bihar” and “this instability” has impacted each regional and nationwide politics.

    Aman Lal, scholar activist from Patna College and a member of All India Scholar Federation which is able to mark its 86th basis day on August 12, stated, “leaving apart the tenure of Sri Krishna Singh within the preliminary days (until 1961) in Bihar after Independence, the executive ministers who succeeded him, may just now not entire their phrases.

    Most effective Lalu Prasad in 90s may just entire his time period, after which Nitish Kumar is the longest-serving CM of Bihar since 2005.

    ” Mavens really feel that gigantic political leaders from Bihar have had a countrywide charisma in large part, and that also is possibly an element because of which “what occurs in Bihar, affects India”.

    But even so, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ok B Sahay, Karpoori Thakur, Daroga Prasad Rai, B P Mandal, all of those have been state leaders but in addition nationwide leaders.

    Mandal Fee arrange in 1979, and chaired by means of B P Mandal, who in brief served as leader minister of Bihar in overdue Sixties, had a large have an effect on all the way through India, and protests have been held, and lots of even tried self-immolation.

    However, possibly the development that ended in preventing of the rath yatra by means of Advani in 1990 is one in all key moments in political historical past of each Bihar and India at huge, given the importance and sensitivity of the Ram Temple factor.

    The BJP patriarch had began the yatra from Somnath in Gujarat and was once to culminate at Ayodhya.

    His swanky automobile entered Bihar via spaces which now fall in Jharkhand, amid chants of ‘Mandir wahin banayege’.

    Sensing it will cause disturbance in communal unity, then leader minister Lalu Yadav ordered IAS officer R Ok Singh to arrest Advani.

    BJP was once then propping up the V P Singh executive and arresting Advani will have ended in its fall and prompt a series of violence.

    Singh halted the rath yatra in Samastipur in north Bihar and arrested Advani, prompting the BJP to withdraw improve to V P Singh’s Nationwide Entrance executive and leading to its cave in.

    The development cleared the path for the emergence of the saffron birthday party as an impressive power at the nation’s political firmament.

    Satirically, he later changed into a joint secretary within the union house ministry when Advani headed it.

    Kumar on Wednesday took oath as Bihar leader minister for the report 8th time at a no-frills rite held at Raj Bhavan in Patna.

    Quickly after being sworn in, he asserted that the NDA executive on the Centre led by means of High Minister Narendra Modi must “concern” about its possibilities within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    He additionally rubbished the BJP’s declare that the brand new executive won’t remaining its complete time period and stated his former best friend “can be again the place they have been after the 2015 meeting polls”.

    Ballot strategist Prashant Kishor in Patna informed TV channels that Kumar was once now not relaxed within the alliance with the BJP and this is the reason he moved from one political formation to the opposite.

    How the present scenario in Bihar will play out ultimately, best time will inform.

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    NEW DELHI: Bihar is not any stranger to being on the centre of a tectonic shift in nationwide politics fuelled by means of turbulent regional forces.

    On Tuesday, an afternoon full of prime drama, Leader Minister Nitish Kumar severed ties with best friend BJP and embraced the Mahagathbandhan or grand alliance, bringing the highlight on Bihar and its complicated matrix of politics.

    From the landmark Bihar motion led by means of scholars in Nineteen Seventies that emanated from Patna to preventing of Lal Krishna Advani’s Ayodhya rath yatra by means of then leader minister Lalu Yadav in Samastipur, those occasions have prompt a series of reactions that ended in primary ruptures within the realm of country politics, throwing ruling events out of seats of energy or resulting in upward thrust of sudden and from time to time risky alliances.

    The Bihar motion, which in the end got here to be referred to as the JP motion as veteran socialist chief Jayaprakash Narayan spearheaded it, had a ripple impact from Patna to Delhi and the echoes of his fiery speeches at Gandhi Maidan within the Bihar capital had reverberations in Ramlila Maidan within the nationwide capital.

    Narayan’s Bihar motion right through the turbulent 70s in the end ended in the Emergency from 1975-77.

    He exhorted school and college scholars within the state to throw themselves into what he had envisaged as a large churn of Indian politics towards corruption.

    Beneath the firebrand JP, the agitation in Bihar took the form of a Sampoorna Kranti or general revolution and the preliminary call for for resignation of the then Ghafoor executive within the state in the end become a bigger call for for dismissal of Indira Gandhi executive.

    After the Emergency was once over and normal elections have been held, Congress was once ousted and a Janata Birthday celebration-led executive got here into energy with Morarji Desai because the high minister.

    The JP motion has had such private and emotional have an effect on on many who Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav, Sushil Kumar Modi and Sharad Yadav, all of whom have been engrossed in scholars politics again then, regularly describe themselves as “fabricated from JP motion”.

    Each Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar, who possibly bonded right through the coed motion, have had ‘friend-turned-foe-turned-friend’ moments of their careers, which additionally has impacted each regional and in flip nationwide politics.

    RJD and JD(U), each descendants of the Janata Dal birthday party, play a the most important position on the subject of sewing energy alliances to shape a central authority.

    And as Kumar returns to the Mahagathbandhan, from which he had walked out of in 2017 submit the 2015 elections, many have additionally begun to take a position if the transfer may have ramifications at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    Many scholar leaders in Patna, PTI spoke to, concurred that “this kind of political disaster being observed lately isn’t new to Bihar” and “this instability” has impacted each regional and nationwide politics.

    Aman Lal, scholar activist from Patna College and a member of All India Scholar Federation which is able to mark its 86th basis day on August 12, stated, “leaving apart the tenure of Sri Krishna Singh within the preliminary days (until 1961) in Bihar after Independence, the executive ministers who succeeded him, may just now not entire their phrases.

    Most effective Lalu Prasad in 90s may just entire his time period, after which Nitish Kumar is the longest-serving CM of Bihar since 2005.

    ” Mavens really feel that gigantic political leaders from Bihar have had a countrywide charisma in large part, and that also is possibly an element because of which “what occurs in Bihar, affects India”.

    But even so, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ok B Sahay, Karpoori Thakur, Daroga Prasad Rai, B P Mandal, all of those have been state leaders but in addition nationwide leaders.

    Mandal Fee arrange in 1979, and chaired by means of B P Mandal, who in brief served as leader minister of Bihar in overdue Sixties, had a large have an effect on all the way through India, and protests have been held, and lots of even tried self-immolation.

    However, possibly the development that ended in preventing of the rath yatra by means of Advani in 1990 is one in all key moments in political historical past of each Bihar and India at huge, given the importance and sensitivity of the Ram Temple factor.

    The BJP patriarch had began the yatra from Somnath in Gujarat and was once to culminate at Ayodhya.

    His swanky automobile entered Bihar via spaces which now fall in Jharkhand, amid chants of ‘Mandir wahin banayege’.

    Sensing it will cause disturbance in communal unity, then leader minister Lalu Yadav ordered IAS officer R Ok Singh to arrest Advani.

    BJP was once then propping up the V P Singh executive and arresting Advani will have ended in its fall and prompt a series of violence.

    Singh halted the rath yatra in Samastipur in north Bihar and arrested Advani, prompting the BJP to withdraw improve to V P Singh’s Nationwide Entrance executive and leading to its cave in.

    The development cleared the path for the emergence of the saffron birthday party as an impressive power at the nation’s political firmament.

    Satirically, he later changed into a joint secretary within the union house ministry when Advani headed it.

    Kumar on Wednesday took oath as Bihar leader minister for the report 8th time at a no-frills rite held at Raj Bhavan in Patna.

    Quickly after being sworn in, he asserted that the NDA executive on the Centre led by means of High Minister Narendra Modi must “concern” about its possibilities within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    He additionally rubbished the BJP’s declare that the brand new executive won’t remaining its complete time period and stated his former best friend “can be again the place they have been after the 2015 meeting polls”.

    Ballot strategist Prashant Kishor in Patna informed TV channels that Kumar was once now not relaxed within the alliance with the BJP and this is the reason he moved from one political formation to the opposite.

    How the present scenario in Bihar will play out ultimately, best time will inform.

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  • ‘Mahagathbandhan’ brings no-confidence movement towards Bihar Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha

    By way of PTI

    PATNA: Bihar’s new ruling coalition, Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), on Wednesday introduced a no-confidence movement towards Meeting Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha who’s a BJP MLA, a senior JD(U) chief mentioned.

    A realize signed through a number of legislators of the Grand Alliance was once submitted to the Meeting secretariat.

    The transfer was once made hours after Nitish Kumar took oath as the executive minister of the Grand Alliance.

    “The movement towards Sinha can be taken up through the Space when it meets to allow Nitish Kumar to transport a consider vote,” senior JD(U) chief Vijay Kumar Chaudhary mentioned.

    A different consultation of the Meeting is predicted to be known as both on August 24 or 25.

    In step with the guideline, a Speaker can also be got rid of from place of work through a solution of the Meeting handed through a majority, mentioned Choudhary.

    Whilst constituents of the Mahagathbandhan have a complete of 164 individuals within the Meeting, the BJP has 77 MLAs.

    Kumar who heads the JD(U) took oath for a file 8th time, as head of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) which it had dumped in 2015, to sign up for arms with the BJP.

    The alternate effected through the wily chief, has within the eyes of many analysts probably pitted him towards High Minister Narendra Modi.

    Alternatively, quickly after the swearing-in rite, Kumar whilst disregarding rumours that he would possibly now eye the High Ministerial race within the subsequent normal election, asserted the Modi-led NDA govt on the Centre does want to “fear” about its potentialities within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    “They will have to keep in mind 2014 (when BJP stormed to energy on the centre) is previous. They want to fear (‘chinta karni chahiye’) about 2024,” Kumar mentioned.

    Leaders of the BJP, which is the second one greatest celebration within the meeting with 77 MLAs, have been conspicuous through their absence on the swearing-in rite.

    “We gained no invitation. We might have, after all, now not favored to witness formation of a central authority which has been put in after betraying the folk of Bihar, who voted for the NDA within the final meeting polls,” BJP chief Sushil Modi instructed a press convention, including that it was once “an insult to High Minister Narendra Modi who caught to his promise of backing Kumar for some other time period, regardless of the JD(U)’s deficient efficiency.”

    The BJP chief who have been deputy leader minister to Kumar, additionally claimed that Tejashwi Yadav because the chief of the numerically larger celebration “will attempt to act because the de facto CM”.

    He additionally alleged that Leader Minister Nitish Kumar sought after to develop into the vp and had parted tactics with BJP after the celebration failed to deal with his ambitions.

    Modi maintained his former boss, Kumar, “has a addiction of ditching allies” and that he would “now not be unswerving to the RJD as smartly, and check out to wreck that celebration making the most of Lalu Prasad’s ill-health.”

    Kumar then again rubbished BJP’s declare that the brand new govt is not going to final its complete time period, and mentioned his former best friend “can be again the place they have been after the 2015 meeting polls” when the NDA may just get not up to 50 seats within the 243-strong meeting.

    He then again mentioned BJP will have to have let its senior chief Sushil Kumar Modi occupy the highest publish after the 2020 Meeting polls as a substitute of insisting that he run for some other time period in place of work.

    “He has been an expensive buddy. Why was once he now not made the CM? Had he been appointed to the publish, issues shouldn’t have reached this degree,” he instructed newshounds in respond to questions on Modi Kumar has given in a listing of 164 MLAs who make stronger him to the Governor together with his celebration JD(U)’s 46 MLAs (45 celebration MLAs and 1 Impartial), RJD’s 79 legislators and Congress’s 19.

    The CPI(ML) which has 12 MLAs, CPI, 2 and CPI(M) are giving him make stronger.

    The HAM celebration which 4 MLAs has additionally thrown in its lot with Kumar.

    The CPIML (L) Wednesday mentioned it is looking for a not unusual minimal programme from the brand new Bihar govt whilst promising outdoor make stronger to it.

    “We’re proposing {that a} not unusual minimal programme of the brand new govt be created,” Dipankar Bhattacharya, normal secretary of the CPIML (L) mentioned at a press convention held Later within the day, JD(U) nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, asserted that his celebration was once “now not terrified of ED and CBI” getting used towards it through the BJP-led central govt.

    The Centre has continuously been accused through the opposition of misusing investigating businesses to focus on political opponents.

    The Congress exulted on the flip of occasions in Bihar after having noticed a central authority in Maharashtra the place it was once section being pulled down through defections.

    Congress chief and MP Jairam Ramesh, in a tweet, mentioned that Bihar was once ‘no operation lotus’.

    “No money stuck. No ED raids. No Assam CM. No lodge trip. All carried out in function Bihar taste, civilised & cheap. CM will get make stronger of greatest celebration and others. In Maharashtra, BJP engineered defections. In Bihar, BJP was once rejected and ejected,” he wrote at the social media.

    PATNA: Bihar’s new ruling coalition, Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), on Wednesday introduced a no-confidence movement towards Meeting Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha who’s a BJP MLA, a senior JD(U) chief mentioned.

    A realize signed through a number of legislators of the Grand Alliance was once submitted to the Meeting secretariat.

    The transfer was once made hours after Nitish Kumar took oath as the executive minister of the Grand Alliance.

    “The movement towards Sinha can be taken up through the Space when it meets to allow Nitish Kumar to transport a consider vote,” senior JD(U) chief Vijay Kumar Chaudhary mentioned.

    A different consultation of the Meeting is predicted to be known as both on August 24 or 25.

    In step with the guideline, a Speaker can also be got rid of from place of work through a solution of the Meeting handed through a majority, mentioned Choudhary.

    Whilst constituents of the Mahagathbandhan have a complete of 164 individuals within the Meeting, the BJP has 77 MLAs.

    Kumar who heads the JD(U) took oath for a file 8th time, as head of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) which it had dumped in 2015, to sign up for arms with the BJP.

    The alternate effected through the wily chief, has within the eyes of many analysts probably pitted him towards High Minister Narendra Modi.

    Alternatively, quickly after the swearing-in rite, Kumar whilst disregarding rumours that he would possibly now eye the High Ministerial race within the subsequent normal election, asserted the Modi-led NDA govt on the Centre does want to “fear” about its potentialities within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    “They will have to keep in mind 2014 (when BJP stormed to energy on the centre) is previous. They want to fear (‘chinta karni chahiye’) about 2024,” Kumar mentioned.

    Leaders of the BJP, which is the second one greatest celebration within the meeting with 77 MLAs, have been conspicuous through their absence on the swearing-in rite.

    “We gained no invitation. We might have, after all, now not favored to witness formation of a central authority which has been put in after betraying the folk of Bihar, who voted for the NDA within the final meeting polls,” BJP chief Sushil Modi instructed a press convention, including that it was once “an insult to High Minister Narendra Modi who caught to his promise of backing Kumar for some other time period, regardless of the JD(U)’s deficient efficiency.”

    The BJP chief who have been deputy leader minister to Kumar, additionally claimed that Tejashwi Yadav because the chief of the numerically larger celebration “will attempt to act because the de facto CM”.

    He additionally alleged that Leader Minister Nitish Kumar sought after to develop into the vp and had parted tactics with BJP after the celebration failed to deal with his ambitions.

    Modi maintained his former boss, Kumar, “has a addiction of ditching allies” and that he would “now not be unswerving to the RJD as smartly, and check out to wreck that celebration making the most of Lalu Prasad’s ill-health.”

    Kumar then again rubbished BJP’s declare that the brand new govt is not going to final its complete time period, and mentioned his former best friend “can be again the place they have been after the 2015 meeting polls” when the NDA may just get not up to 50 seats within the 243-strong meeting.

    He then again mentioned BJP will have to have let its senior chief Sushil Kumar Modi occupy the highest publish after the 2020 Meeting polls as a substitute of insisting that he run for some other time period in place of work.

    “He has been an expensive buddy. Why was once he now not made the CM? Had he been appointed to the publish, issues shouldn’t have reached this degree,” he instructed newshounds in respond to questions on Modi Kumar has given in a listing of 164 MLAs who make stronger him to the Governor together with his celebration JD(U)’s 46 MLAs (45 celebration MLAs and 1 Impartial), RJD’s 79 legislators and Congress’s 19.

    The CPI(ML) which has 12 MLAs, CPI, 2 and CPI(M) are giving him make stronger.

    The HAM celebration which 4 MLAs has additionally thrown in its lot with Kumar.

    The CPIML (L) Wednesday mentioned it is looking for a not unusual minimal programme from the brand new Bihar govt whilst promising outdoor make stronger to it.

    “We’re proposing {that a} not unusual minimal programme of the brand new govt be created,” Dipankar Bhattacharya, normal secretary of the CPIML (L) mentioned at a press convention held Later within the day, JD(U) nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, asserted that his celebration was once “now not terrified of ED and CBI” getting used towards it through the BJP-led central govt.

    The Centre has continuously been accused through the opposition of misusing investigating businesses to focus on political opponents.

    The Congress exulted on the flip of occasions in Bihar after having noticed a central authority in Maharashtra the place it was once section being pulled down through defections.

    Congress chief and MP Jairam Ramesh, in a tweet, mentioned that Bihar was once ‘no operation lotus’.

    “No money stuck. No ED raids. No Assam CM. No lodge trip. All carried out in function Bihar taste, civilised & cheap. CM will get make stronger of greatest celebration and others. In Maharashtra, BJP engineered defections. In Bihar, BJP was once rejected and ejected,” he wrote at the social media.

  • Nitish Kumar: Operating stable in spite of twists and turns

    Via Businesses

    The longest-serving leader minister of any Hindi- talking state, Nitish Kumar turns out to have obtained an charisma of indispensability on the subject of the best seat of energy in Bihar.

    A cunning flesh presser, he stored the BJP guessing until the 11th hour prior to severing ties with the best friend, following “unanimous sentiments” in his JD(U) that it was once to be blamed for the birthday party’s dwindling fortunes.

    Kumar then clinched a brand new deal very quickly with the opposition which, bereft of energy and coherence, welcomed him with open palms.

    In a political profession spanning 4 a long time, Kumar, 71, has stored at bay taints of corruption, nepotism and misgovernance, leaving critics with little aside from “opportunism” as a keep on with be crushed with.

    Born on March 1, 1951 in Bakhtiyarpur, a nondescript the town at the outskirts of Patna, to an Ayurvedic practitioner-cum-freedom fighter father, Kumar is {an electrical} engineer through coaching.

    All over his days on the Bihar Engineering School, now referred to as NIT, Patna, he turned into lively in scholar politics and were given related to the ‘JP motion’, which offered him to a lot of his long run pals, together with Lalu Prasad and Sushil Kumar Modi.

    His first electoral luck got here within the 1985 meeting elections, which the Congress swept despite the fact that he controlled to win the Harnaut seat for Lok Dal.

    5 years later, he moved to Delhi as an MP from the now- abolished seat of Barh.

    ALSO READ | Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM, Tejashwi his deputy

    After some other part a decade, when the Mandal wave was once at its height and Prasad was once reaping its dividends, Kumar sided with George Fernandes to waft the Samata Birthday party, which might later morph into the JD(U) and percentage energy with BJP on the Centre and, 2005 onwards, within the state.

    His first 5 years as leader minister are recalled with admiration even through critics, marked through huge enhancements in recovery of legislation and order in a state that made headlines for massacres through rivalling militias and kidnappings for ransom.

    A fabricated from the Mandal churn, the Kurmi chief additionally realised that he didn’t have the benefit of belonging to a populous caste crew and created sub-quotas amongst OBCs and Dalits, who had been known as ‘Ati Pichhda’ (EBC) and Mahadalits, which was once resented through the dominant Yadavs and Dusadhs (supporters of Ram Vilas Paswan).

    He additionally gave patronage to “Pasmanda” Muslims which, but even so his talent to stay Hindutva vigilantes in take a look at, endeared him to the minority group in spite of an outdated alliance with the BJP.

    ALSO READ | Nitish was once uncomfortable with BJP, claims Prashan Kishor

    Kumar introduced in measures like loose bicycles and college uniforms for school-going ladies, which gained him a lot adulation and the exuberant public temper noticed him returning to energy in 2010, main the JD(U)-BJP coalition with a landslide victory in meeting polls.

    The duration, alternatively, additionally noticed the top of the “Atal-Advani technology” in BJP and Kumar ended up locking horns with Narendra Modi, then his Gujarat counterpart whom he by no means allowed to marketing campaign in Bihar, and snapped ties with the saffron birthday party in 2013.

    He survived in energy because the JD(U) was once formidably positioned within the meeting, however stepped down in 2014, proudly owning ethical duty for the birthday party’s drubbing within the Lok Sabha elections, by which it returned with a gloomy tally of simply two seats.

    In not up to a 12 months, he was once again as leader minister, elbowing out his rebellious protege Jitan Ram Manjhi with considerable reinforce from the RJD and the Congress and got here to be noticed, nationally, as a possible challenger to the Modi juggernaut.

    The Grand Alliance that got here into being with JD(U), Congress and RJD coming in combination, gained the 2015 meeting polls handsomely, however got here aside in simply two years.

    ALSO READ | ‘Sushasan Babu’ or ‘Paltu Ram’? Meet Nitish Kumar, grasp of the artwork of fixing governments

    Kumar returned to the NDA in 2017, hoping to get some traction through distinctive feature of taking a stand in opposition to corruption taint on his then deputy Tejashwi Yadav.

    His tie-up with the BJP, now in energy on the Centre with a brute majority, proved to be electorally a success despite the fact that his personal stature gave the impression to diminish, as obtrusive from the 2020 meeting ballot ends up in which the JD(U) may just win below 45 seats within the 243-strong Space.

    The BJP’s competitive taste, looking for to conquer adversaries and gobble up allies, seems to have were given the goat of Kumar, who now turns out to have made up our minds that he’s along with his former allies who confirmed restricted ambition.

    Whether or not not unusual flooring along with his new allies in regards to communalism and social justice will probably be stable sufficient a glue to carry the coalition in combination will probably be identified within the days to return.

    Cynics would possibly view the transfer as a survival tactic on his phase, however Kumar’s parting tactics with the BJP has held out the promise of infusing contemporary vigour within the dispirited opposition within the nation.

    The longest-serving leader minister of any Hindi- talking state, Nitish Kumar turns out to have obtained an charisma of indispensability on the subject of the best seat of energy in Bihar.

    A cunning flesh presser, he stored the BJP guessing until the 11th hour prior to severing ties with the best friend, following “unanimous sentiments” in his JD(U) that it was once to be blamed for the birthday party’s dwindling fortunes.

    Kumar then clinched a brand new deal very quickly with the opposition which, bereft of energy and coherence, welcomed him with open palms.

    In a political profession spanning 4 a long time, Kumar, 71, has stored at bay taints of corruption, nepotism and misgovernance, leaving critics with little aside from “opportunism” as a keep on with be crushed with.

    Born on March 1, 1951 in Bakhtiyarpur, a nondescript the town at the outskirts of Patna, to an Ayurvedic practitioner-cum-freedom fighter father, Kumar is {an electrical} engineer through coaching.

    All over his days on the Bihar Engineering School, now referred to as NIT, Patna, he turned into lively in scholar politics and were given related to the ‘JP motion’, which offered him to a lot of his long run pals, together with Lalu Prasad and Sushil Kumar Modi.

    His first electoral luck got here within the 1985 meeting elections, which the Congress swept despite the fact that he controlled to win the Harnaut seat for Lok Dal.

    5 years later, he moved to Delhi as an MP from the now- abolished seat of Barh.

    ALSO READ | Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM, Tejashwi his deputy

    After some other part a decade, when the Mandal wave was once at its height and Prasad was once reaping its dividends, Kumar sided with George Fernandes to waft the Samata Birthday party, which might later morph into the JD(U) and percentage energy with BJP on the Centre and, 2005 onwards, within the state.

    His first 5 years as leader minister are recalled with admiration even through critics, marked through huge enhancements in recovery of legislation and order in a state that made headlines for massacres through rivalling militias and kidnappings for ransom.

    A fabricated from the Mandal churn, the Kurmi chief additionally realised that he didn’t have the benefit of belonging to a populous caste crew and created sub-quotas amongst OBCs and Dalits, who had been known as ‘Ati Pichhda’ (EBC) and Mahadalits, which was once resented through the dominant Yadavs and Dusadhs (supporters of Ram Vilas Paswan).

    He additionally gave patronage to “Pasmanda” Muslims which, but even so his talent to stay Hindutva vigilantes in take a look at, endeared him to the minority group in spite of an outdated alliance with the BJP.

    ALSO READ | Nitish was once uncomfortable with BJP, claims Prashan Kishor

    Kumar introduced in measures like loose bicycles and college uniforms for school-going ladies, which gained him a lot adulation and the exuberant public temper noticed him returning to energy in 2010, main the JD(U)-BJP coalition with a landslide victory in meeting polls.

    The duration, alternatively, additionally noticed the top of the “Atal-Advani technology” in BJP and Kumar ended up locking horns with Narendra Modi, then his Gujarat counterpart whom he by no means allowed to marketing campaign in Bihar, and snapped ties with the saffron birthday party in 2013.

    He survived in energy because the JD(U) was once formidably positioned within the meeting, however stepped down in 2014, proudly owning ethical duty for the birthday party’s drubbing within the Lok Sabha elections, by which it returned with a gloomy tally of simply two seats.

    In not up to a 12 months, he was once again as leader minister, elbowing out his rebellious protege Jitan Ram Manjhi with considerable reinforce from the RJD and the Congress and got here to be noticed, nationally, as a possible challenger to the Modi juggernaut.

    The Grand Alliance that got here into being with JD(U), Congress and RJD coming in combination, gained the 2015 meeting polls handsomely, however got here aside in simply two years.

    ALSO READ | ‘Sushasan Babu’ or ‘Paltu Ram’? Meet Nitish Kumar, grasp of the artwork of fixing governments

    Kumar returned to the NDA in 2017, hoping to get some traction through distinctive feature of taking a stand in opposition to corruption taint on his then deputy Tejashwi Yadav.

    His tie-up with the BJP, now in energy on the Centre with a brute majority, proved to be electorally a success despite the fact that his personal stature gave the impression to diminish, as obtrusive from the 2020 meeting ballot ends up in which the JD(U) may just win below 45 seats within the 243-strong Space.

    The BJP’s competitive taste, looking for to conquer adversaries and gobble up allies, seems to have were given the goat of Kumar, who now turns out to have made up our minds that he’s along with his former allies who confirmed restricted ambition.

    Whether or not not unusual flooring along with his new allies in regards to communalism and social justice will probably be stable sufficient a glue to carry the coalition in combination will probably be identified within the days to return.

    Cynics would possibly view the transfer as a survival tactic on his phase, however Kumar’s parting tactics with the BJP has held out the promise of infusing contemporary vigour within the dispirited opposition within the nation.

  • RJD more likely to get lion’s percentage in new Bihar Cupboard, Nitish might retain House

    By way of PTI

    PATNA: JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, who is about to be sworn in as Bihar Leader Minister for a report 8th time on Wednesday, is more likely to retain the all-important House portfolio, whilst the RJD might get many of the departments that had been prior to now with the BJP, a highly-placed supply mentioned.

    He mentioned an in-principle settlement has been reached concerning the composition of the brand new cupboard, which is more likely to have “35 participants or extra”, drawn from Kumar’s JD(U), the RJD and the Congress.

    Kumar, who’s being counseled through opposition events for becoming a member of the “anti-BJP camp”, additionally had a telephonic communicate with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the political scenario.

    In keeping with broader contours of the ability sharing system, the RJD can have the biggest choice of ministers, in reputation of the truth that it has the next choice of MLAs.

    There’s a probability of best Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav taking oath within the afternoon, since Governor Phagu Chauhan has urgent engagements and must shuttle, whilst ultimate participants will sworn in a cupboard enlargement workout later.

    “The JD(U) is more likely to have 13 ministers, the RJD has settled for 16. The Congress will probably be given 4 berths, whilst former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM can have one member within the cupboard,” the supply mentioned.

    A large figuring out is claimed to had been reached a few of the alliance companions at the names, barring the Congress, which wishes the similar to be licensed through the birthday party prime command in Delhi.

    The JD(U) is more likely to reinstate as a lot of its ministers as conceivable from the former cupboard, which used to be disbanded on Tuesday night time vide a notification issued through the manager secretary.

    Kumar himself will probably be preserving House, which is helping him have a keep an eye on over the police. He’s more likely to additionally stay the departments associated with welfare of extraordinarily backward castes and minorities, which shape his core constituency.

    The RJD has ready an inventory of names and shared it with birthday party supremo Lalu Prasad for approval. Whilst Tejashwi Yadav is sure to turn out to be the deputy CM, it’s not but determined which portfolios he’ll stay.

    The in-principle choice at hand over BJP’s portfolios to RJD signifies that it’s going to get some key ones like well being and street building division, the supply added.

    PATNA: JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, who is about to be sworn in as Bihar Leader Minister for a report 8th time on Wednesday, is more likely to retain the all-important House portfolio, whilst the RJD might get many of the departments that had been prior to now with the BJP, a highly-placed supply mentioned.

    He mentioned an in-principle settlement has been reached concerning the composition of the brand new cupboard, which is more likely to have “35 participants or extra”, drawn from Kumar’s JD(U), the RJD and the Congress.

    Kumar, who’s being counseled through opposition events for becoming a member of the “anti-BJP camp”, additionally had a telephonic communicate with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the political scenario.

    In keeping with broader contours of the ability sharing system, the RJD can have the biggest choice of ministers, in reputation of the truth that it has the next choice of MLAs.

    There’s a probability of best Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav taking oath within the afternoon, since Governor Phagu Chauhan has urgent engagements and must shuttle, whilst ultimate participants will sworn in a cupboard enlargement workout later.

    “The JD(U) is more likely to have 13 ministers, the RJD has settled for 16. The Congress will probably be given 4 berths, whilst former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM can have one member within the cupboard,” the supply mentioned.

    A large figuring out is claimed to had been reached a few of the alliance companions at the names, barring the Congress, which wishes the similar to be licensed through the birthday party prime command in Delhi.

    The JD(U) is more likely to reinstate as a lot of its ministers as conceivable from the former cupboard, which used to be disbanded on Tuesday night time vide a notification issued through the manager secretary.

    Kumar himself will probably be preserving House, which is helping him have a keep an eye on over the police. He’s more likely to additionally stay the departments associated with welfare of extraordinarily backward castes and minorities, which shape his core constituency.

    The RJD has ready an inventory of names and shared it with birthday party supremo Lalu Prasad for approval. Whilst Tejashwi Yadav is sure to turn out to be the deputy CM, it’s not but determined which portfolios he’ll stay.

    The in-principle choice at hand over BJP’s portfolios to RJD signifies that it’s going to get some key ones like well being and street building division, the supply added.

  • Mulayam’s daughter-in-law Rajlakshmi can pass to Patna if RJD govt is shaped, Rakhi will tie the brother Tejaswi and Tej Pratap

    Lucknow: In Bihar, Nitish Kumar broke ties on Tuesday by way of accusing the BJP of harming JDU. On the identical time, Nitish Kumar shaped the federal government of Mahagathbandhan on Wednesday after isolating from the NDA. Nitish Kumar has transform the CM of Bihar for the 8th time. Nitish Kumar will take oath as CM on Wednesday at 2 pm. On the identical time, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav is assumed to be the deputy CM. The relationship of Bihar politics could also be with Saifai of UP. Right here Lalu’s daughter Raj Laxmi Yadav is the spouse of former MP Tej Pratap Yadav, grandson of Mulayam Singh Yadav. At the moment Raj Laxmi is in Delhi. It’s believed that if JDU and RJD shape the federal government once more in Bihar, she will achieve Patna. On Rakshabandhan, Rajalakshmi can achieve Patna to tie Rakhi to her brother.

    On the identical time, on Tuesday, Rajalakshmi did a tweet, through which it was once written that ‘Shankhnaad! The wings given previous will now fly. Chanakya way Bihari Bihari way Chanakya. Pretend Chanakyagiri will run outdoor Bihar. Stated Bihar Tejashwi Bhava: Executive. Previous, any other daughter of Lalu and sister of Rajalakshmi, Rohini Acharya has additionally tweeted – ‘Getting ready for the coronation, the lantern holder is coming.’

    Rajalakshmi stays energetic on social media
    Allow us to let you know that within the yr 2015, Rajlakshmi Yadav was once married to Tej Pratap Yadav. Tej Pratap has been a Lok Sabha MP. He had reached the Lok Sabha in 2014 on a Samajwadi Celebration price tag from Mainpuri. They have got two youngsters. Rajlakshmi Yadav isn’t energetic in politics, however she assists in keeping on expressing her perspectives on social media now and again. Tej Pratap Yadav is the grandson of Mulayam’s elder brother Ratan Singh. He did his MSc from the College of Leeds, England. He was once elected because the block leader sooner than contesting the Lok Sabha elections.

  • JDU again in Opposition entrance as soon as once more as Nitish adjustments boat, to take oath as Bihar CM for document 8th time

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    Nitish Kumar could be sworn in for the document 8th time as Bihar leader minister at 2 PM on Wednesday with strengthen from a brand new set of allies – RJD, Congress and the Left events – after he determined to wreck alliance with the BJP and renounce as the top of a coalition govt with that birthday party.

    All over the process the day, Kumar met Governor Phagu Chauhan two times; first to renounce as the manager minister of the JD(U)-BJP coalition govt, and a 2nd time to stake declare to shape a central authority with the strengthen of 164 MLAs belonging to seven events, together with the RJD, Congress and the Left.

    Kumar gave an inventory of supporting MLAs to the Governor. The Governor invited him to shape a brand new govt on Wednesday.

    After setting up his paper as the manager minister, Nitish Kumar drove immediately to former leader minister Rabri Devi’s area to speak about the formation of a brand new govt with Rabri’s son and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav. Discussions have been additionally held with leaders of the Congress and Left events.

    The verdict to wreck the alliance with the BJP used to be taken at a gathering of JD(U) MPs and MLAs at Patna.

    Birthday party leaders mentioned that the manager minister had won studies that their coalition spouse BJP used to be making an attempt to wreck the JD(U) MLAs to shape a central authority minus Nitish Kumar.

    “Our chief Nitish Kumar has nipped the BJP’s ‘Operation Kamal’ within the bud. It used to be the manager minister’s alacrity that avoided the BJP from seizing energy via breaking the JD(U) legislature birthday party,” mentioned a senior JD(U) chief.

    ALSO READ | Bihar tendencies: Deve Gowda expresses hope of Janata Dal Parivar re-emergence

    The primary indication of JD(U)-BJP members of the family going irreconcilably unhealthy got here on Monday when the JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh lashed out on the BJP for breaching the coalition dharma via looking to defeat JD(U) applicants via the use of what he termed because the “Chirag style” the place applicants belonging to Ramvilas Paswan’s son Chirag Paswan’s birthday party have been reportedly backed via the BJP in opposition to JD(U) applicants.

    Singh mentioned the JD(U) survived that assault “however a recent try is being made to break our birthday party.” JD(U) leaders mentioned that the BJP used to be the use of former Union minister RCP Singh to separate the JD(U).

    Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal accused Nitish Kumar of betraying the mandate of the 2020 meeting polls, and claimed that he’ll be “punished via the folk of Bihar”.

    Kumar’s transfer used to be a reversal of his turn in 2017 when he left the Mahagathbandhan to rejoin the NDA.

    He had previous abandoned the NDA in 2013 after Narendra Modi used to be declared the High Ministerial candidate. That is the second one time Nitish has left the BJP out within the chilly within the final 9 years.

    The Bihar meeting has an efficient power of 242 MLAs. The brand new coalition calls for 121 MLAs for a majority.

    ALSO READ | Nitish’s volte-face with NDA: BJP suffers setback in Bihar however sees alternative to develop

    The RJD has the easiest choice of 79 MLAs adopted via the BJP (77) and the JD(U) with 44. The JD(U) additionally enjoys the strengthen of 4 MLAs of former Leader Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha and one Unbiased.

    The Congress has 19 MLAs whilst the CPIML(L) has 12 and CPI and CPI(M) have two every. But even so, one MLA belongs to Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM.

    The political building in Bihar would have a large have an effect on at the subsequent Lok Sabha elections. CPIML(L) basic secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya mentioned that with the brand new alignment of forces in Bihar, the state, which sends 40 MPs to the Lok Sabha, will be the major battleground within the 2024 basic elections. The BJP-JD(U) alliance had gained 39 out of the 40 seats within the 2019 elections.

    Bhattacharya mentioned the BJP all the time had a dim view of its allies. He mentioned BJP president J P Nadda’s fresh commentary that “regional events don’t have any long term” displays the birthday party’s perspectives.

    Tejashwi Yadav mentioned historical past presentations that the BJP has destroyed all its allies.

    Nitish Kumar could be sworn in for the document 8th time as Bihar leader minister at 2 PM on Wednesday with strengthen from a brand new set of allies – RJD, Congress and the Left events – after he determined to wreck alliance with the BJP and renounce as the top of a coalition govt with that birthday party.

    All over the process the day, Kumar met Governor Phagu Chauhan two times; first to renounce as the manager minister of the JD(U)-BJP coalition govt, and a 2nd time to stake declare to shape a central authority with the strengthen of 164 MLAs belonging to seven events, together with the RJD, Congress and the Left.

    Kumar gave an inventory of supporting MLAs to the Governor. The Governor invited him to shape a brand new govt on Wednesday.

    After setting up his paper as the manager minister, Nitish Kumar drove immediately to former leader minister Rabri Devi’s area to speak about the formation of a brand new govt with Rabri’s son and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav. Discussions have been additionally held with leaders of the Congress and Left events.

    The verdict to wreck the alliance with the BJP used to be taken at a gathering of JD(U) MPs and MLAs at Patna.

    Birthday party leaders mentioned that the manager minister had won studies that their coalition spouse BJP used to be making an attempt to wreck the JD(U) MLAs to shape a central authority minus Nitish Kumar.

    “Our chief Nitish Kumar has nipped the BJP’s ‘Operation Kamal’ within the bud. It used to be the manager minister’s alacrity that avoided the BJP from seizing energy via breaking the JD(U) legislature birthday party,” mentioned a senior JD(U) chief.

    ALSO READ | Bihar tendencies: Deve Gowda expresses hope of Janata Dal Parivar re-emergence

    The primary indication of JD(U)-BJP members of the family going irreconcilably unhealthy got here on Monday when the JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh lashed out on the BJP for breaching the coalition dharma via looking to defeat JD(U) applicants via the use of what he termed because the “Chirag style” the place applicants belonging to Ramvilas Paswan’s son Chirag Paswan’s birthday party have been reportedly backed via the BJP in opposition to JD(U) applicants.

    Singh mentioned the JD(U) survived that assault “however a recent try is being made to break our birthday party.” JD(U) leaders mentioned that the BJP used to be the use of former Union minister RCP Singh to separate the JD(U).

    Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal accused Nitish Kumar of betraying the mandate of the 2020 meeting polls, and claimed that he’ll be “punished via the folk of Bihar”.

    Kumar’s transfer used to be a reversal of his turn in 2017 when he left the Mahagathbandhan to rejoin the NDA.

    He had previous abandoned the NDA in 2013 after Narendra Modi used to be declared the High Ministerial candidate. That is the second one time Nitish has left the BJP out within the chilly within the final 9 years.

    The Bihar meeting has an efficient power of 242 MLAs. The brand new coalition calls for 121 MLAs for a majority.

    ALSO READ | Nitish’s volte-face with NDA: BJP suffers setback in Bihar however sees alternative to develop

    The RJD has the easiest choice of 79 MLAs adopted via the BJP (77) and the JD(U) with 44. The JD(U) additionally enjoys the strengthen of 4 MLAs of former Leader Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha and one Unbiased.

    The Congress has 19 MLAs whilst the CPIML(L) has 12 and CPI and CPI(M) have two every. But even so, one MLA belongs to Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM.

    The political building in Bihar would have a large have an effect on at the subsequent Lok Sabha elections. CPIML(L) basic secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya mentioned that with the brand new alignment of forces in Bihar, the state, which sends 40 MPs to the Lok Sabha, will be the major battleground within the 2024 basic elections. The BJP-JD(U) alliance had gained 39 out of the 40 seats within the 2019 elections.

    Bhattacharya mentioned the BJP all the time had a dim view of its allies. He mentioned BJP president J P Nadda’s fresh commentary that “regional events don’t have any long term” displays the birthday party’s perspectives.

    Tejashwi Yadav mentioned historical past presentations that the BJP has destroyed all its allies.

  • Congress prone to get 4 ministerial berths in new Nitish executive as JDU leader reaches out to Gandhis

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress is prone to get 4 ministerial berths within the new executive in Bihar as JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the BJP and joined palms with the RJD-led alliance, resources stated on Tuesday.

    Resources stated Kumar spoke to each Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi quickly after resigning from his publish of leader minister.

    He’s additionally learnt to have thanked the Congress management for extending improve within the formation of the brand new executive.

    But even so the 4 ministerial berths, the Congress has additionally sought the publish of Speaker of the state meeting, however Kumar isn’t enthusiastic about giving that, resources stated.

    The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-member Bihar Meeting whilst the JD(U) has 45, RJD 79, CPI(ML) 12, and CPI and CPI(M) each and every have two legislators.

    The BJP has 77 MLAs in Bihar whilst the Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has 4.

    The Space has one Unbiased MLA whilst one seat is vacant.

    Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha and the celebration’s in-charge of Bihar affairs Bhakta Charan Das had been provide on the assembly of Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav and leaders of alternative events.

    All 19 legislators of the Congress later attended a dinner assembly on the place of abode of the CLP chief within the Bihar meeting in Patna.

    Most sensible Congress management in Delhi alternatively, remained silent at the tendencies in Bihar and confabulations over the brand new executive formation within the state.

    Previous, the Congress stated it is going to be part of the non-BJP alliance in Bihar to assist fortify secular forces.

    The celebration stated that like in Maharashtra the place it helped sew in combination the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive through supporting the Shiv Sena which used to be ideologically other from it, it is going to align with Kumar who has been with them previously.

    “Ours is an ideological struggle and we don’t seem to be combating for energy. The Congress will improve any non-BJP executive and assist fortify secular forces,” Congress common secretary Tariq Anwar previous informed PTI.

    “As a result of Nitish Kumar is leaving the BJP and coming over, we can improve him,” he stated, including the Congress will take no matter steps which can be had to fortify secular forces and defeat the communal forces.

    Taking a swipe on the BJP, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh, tweeted, “In March 2020, Modi sarkar postponed COVID-19 lockdown to engineer the autumn of the Kamal Nath executive in Madhya Pradesh.

    Now, it cuts brief Parliament consultation figuring out its coalition executive in Bihar goes.

    What is going up will have to come down!” A gathering of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, comprising the Left and the Congress, additionally happened at Rabri Devi’s space, the place all of the MLAs are stated to have signed a letter to improve Kumar.

    Nitish Kumar is known to have informed JD(U) legislators and MPs, at a gathering he convened at his reputable place of abode, that he have been pushed in opposition to the wall through the BJP which attempted to weaken his celebration, first through propping up Chirag Paswan’s insurrection and later thru its former nationwide president RCP Singh.

    Family members between the BJP and the JD(U) had been worsening within the wake of disagreements over a bunch of problems together with caste census, inhabitants keep watch over and the ‘Agnipath’ defence recruitment scheme.

    JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar spoke with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and expressed his gratitude to them for supporting him after he broke ties with the BJP, Congress resources stated on Tuesday.

    The resources additionally stated Congress can have “lively participation” within the executive that shall be shaped through the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the JD(U).

    On an afternoon of fast-moving political tendencies, Kumar met Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan two times — first at hand in his resignation because the NDA leader minister after which after being elected chief of the Mahagathbandhan to stake declare for the highest process within the state as soon as once more.

    Kumar stated he submitted an inventory of 164 MLAs to the governor who will come to a decision when the oath-taking can happen.

    The efficient energy of the Bihar Meeting is 242 and the magic determine is 122.

    Previous within the day, Congress had stated it is going to improve any non-BJP executive in Bihar to assist fortify secular forces.

    The Congress has 19 legislators within the Bihar Meeting.

    Swearing in of Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav as Leader Minister and Deputy CM respectively will happen at 2 pm on Wednesday, extremely positioned resources stated right here.

    It is going to be a easy rite to be held within Raj Bhavan.

    Extra ministers shall be inducted into the cupboard at a later degree, resources in Kumar’s JD(U) and Yadav’s RJD stated.

    Kumar, who dumped the BJP-led NDA previous within the day, shall be taking oath because the CM for the 8th time.

    He’ll be heading a coalition of 7 events which is supported through an Unbiased.

    NEW DELHI: The Congress is prone to get 4 ministerial berths within the new executive in Bihar as JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the BJP and joined palms with the RJD-led alliance, resources stated on Tuesday.

    Resources stated Kumar spoke to each Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi quickly after resigning from his publish of leader minister.

    He’s additionally learnt to have thanked the Congress management for extending improve within the formation of the brand new executive.

    But even so the 4 ministerial berths, the Congress has additionally sought the publish of Speaker of the state meeting, however Kumar isn’t enthusiastic about giving that, resources stated.

    The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-member Bihar Meeting whilst the JD(U) has 45, RJD 79, CPI(ML) 12, and CPI and CPI(M) each and every have two legislators.

    The BJP has 77 MLAs in Bihar whilst the Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has 4.

    The Space has one Unbiased MLA whilst one seat is vacant.

    Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha and the celebration’s in-charge of Bihar affairs Bhakta Charan Das had been provide on the assembly of Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav and leaders of alternative events.

    All 19 legislators of the Congress later attended a dinner assembly on the place of abode of the CLP chief within the Bihar meeting in Patna.

    Most sensible Congress management in Delhi alternatively, remained silent at the tendencies in Bihar and confabulations over the brand new executive formation within the state.

    Previous, the Congress stated it is going to be part of the non-BJP alliance in Bihar to assist fortify secular forces.

    The celebration stated that like in Maharashtra the place it helped sew in combination the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive through supporting the Shiv Sena which used to be ideologically other from it, it is going to align with Kumar who has been with them previously.

    “Ours is an ideological struggle and we don’t seem to be combating for energy. The Congress will improve any non-BJP executive and assist fortify secular forces,” Congress common secretary Tariq Anwar previous informed PTI.

    “As a result of Nitish Kumar is leaving the BJP and coming over, we can improve him,” he stated, including the Congress will take no matter steps which can be had to fortify secular forces and defeat the communal forces.

    Taking a swipe on the BJP, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh, tweeted, “In March 2020, Modi sarkar postponed COVID-19 lockdown to engineer the autumn of the Kamal Nath executive in Madhya Pradesh.

    Now, it cuts brief Parliament consultation figuring out its coalition executive in Bihar goes.

    What is going up will have to come down!” A gathering of the RJD-led Grand Alliance, comprising the Left and the Congress, additionally happened at Rabri Devi’s space, the place all of the MLAs are stated to have signed a letter to improve Kumar.

    Nitish Kumar is known to have informed JD(U) legislators and MPs, at a gathering he convened at his reputable place of abode, that he have been pushed in opposition to the wall through the BJP which attempted to weaken his celebration, first through propping up Chirag Paswan’s insurrection and later thru its former nationwide president RCP Singh.

    Family members between the BJP and the JD(U) had been worsening within the wake of disagreements over a bunch of problems together with caste census, inhabitants keep watch over and the ‘Agnipath’ defence recruitment scheme.

    JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar spoke with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and expressed his gratitude to them for supporting him after he broke ties with the BJP, Congress resources stated on Tuesday.

    The resources additionally stated Congress can have “lively participation” within the executive that shall be shaped through the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the JD(U).

    On an afternoon of fast-moving political tendencies, Kumar met Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan two times — first at hand in his resignation because the NDA leader minister after which after being elected chief of the Mahagathbandhan to stake declare for the highest process within the state as soon as once more.

    Kumar stated he submitted an inventory of 164 MLAs to the governor who will come to a decision when the oath-taking can happen.

    The efficient energy of the Bihar Meeting is 242 and the magic determine is 122.

    Previous within the day, Congress had stated it is going to improve any non-BJP executive in Bihar to assist fortify secular forces.

    The Congress has 19 legislators within the Bihar Meeting.

    Swearing in of Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav as Leader Minister and Deputy CM respectively will happen at 2 pm on Wednesday, extremely positioned resources stated right here.

    It is going to be a easy rite to be held within Raj Bhavan.

    Extra ministers shall be inducted into the cupboard at a later degree, resources in Kumar’s JD(U) and Yadav’s RJD stated.

    Kumar, who dumped the BJP-led NDA previous within the day, shall be taking oath because the CM for the 8th time.

    He’ll be heading a coalition of 7 events which is supported through an Unbiased.

  • Nitish Kumar claims make stronger of 164 MLAs of seven Mahagathbandhan events to shape executive

    By way of ANI

    PATNA: Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday staked declare to shape the following govt in Bihar with the make stronger of 7 events after he broke alliance with BJP and resigned as Leader Minister.

    He mentioned there are seven events together with RJD who’re supporting him. “I got here right here to fulfill Governor and gave my resignation. There are 7 events together with 164 MLAs in conjunction with Independents in Mahagathbandahan,” Kumar instructed journalists. He was once accompanied via RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav.

    The JD(U) and RJD, who in combination represent a majority within the 243-member state meeting. JD(U) has 45 and the RJD has 79 MLAs. In addition they have the make stronger of smaller events like Jitan Manjhi’s HAM. The BJP has 77 MLAs within the state meeting.

    Nitish Kumar previous within the day broke his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) following a gathering of JD-U leaders and legislators. He then sought time from Governor Phagu Chauhan and tendered his resignation.

    In line with assets, many JD(U) legislators instructed Kumar in these days’s assembly that the alliance with the BJP had weakened the birthday celebration since 2020.

    With out naming Chirag Paswan, the legislators are reported to have recalled the movements of the previous Lok Janshakti Celebration (LJP) leader throughout the 2020 state meeting polls whilst caution Kumar that in the event that they weren’t alert, it could no longer be excellent for the birthday celebration.

    A gathering of the RJD-led opposition alliance was once additionally held at former leader minister Rabri Devi’s place of abode. The assembly accepted Tejashwi Yadav to take an acceptable choice on govt formation in Bihar. 

    PATNA: Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday staked declare to shape the following govt in Bihar with the make stronger of 7 events after he broke alliance with BJP and resigned as Leader Minister.

    He mentioned there are seven events together with RJD who’re supporting him. “I got here right here to fulfill Governor and gave my resignation. There are 7 events together with 164 MLAs in conjunction with Independents in Mahagathbandahan,” Kumar instructed journalists. He was once accompanied via RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav.

    The JD(U) and RJD, who in combination represent a majority within the 243-member state meeting. JD(U) has 45 and the RJD has 79 MLAs. In addition they have the make stronger of smaller events like Jitan Manjhi’s HAM. The BJP has 77 MLAs within the state meeting.

    Nitish Kumar previous within the day broke his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) following a gathering of JD-U leaders and legislators. He then sought time from Governor Phagu Chauhan and tendered his resignation.

    In line with assets, many JD(U) legislators instructed Kumar in these days’s assembly that the alliance with the BJP had weakened the birthday celebration since 2020.

    With out naming Chirag Paswan, the legislators are reported to have recalled the movements of the previous Lok Janshakti Celebration (LJP) leader throughout the 2020 state meeting polls whilst caution Kumar that in the event that they weren’t alert, it could no longer be excellent for the birthday celebration.

    A gathering of the RJD-led opposition alliance was once additionally held at former leader minister Rabri Devi’s place of abode. The assembly accepted Tejashwi Yadav to take an acceptable choice on govt formation in Bihar. 

  • Bihar CM Nitish Kumar seeks appointment with Governor amid talks of crumbling alliance

    By means of ANI

    PATNA: Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has sought an appointment with Governor Phagu Chauhan, assets instructed ANI on Tuesday.

    This got here after the executive minister chaired a gathering of JD(U) legislators and MPs on the place of abode of Kumar in Patna following the resignation of birthday party chief RCP Singh on Saturday.

    In the meantime, Congress and Left birthday party leaders and MLAs additionally converged lately on the place of abode of Rabri Devi right here for a gathering convened via the opposition RJD.

    The BJP additionally held a gathering of its best leaders at Deputy Leader Minister Tarkishor Prasad’s place of abode right here.

    ALSO READ | Bihar to peer MVA-like executive? Nitish might unload BJP in favour of RJD, Congress, Left

    PATNA: Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has sought an appointment with Governor Phagu Chauhan, assets instructed ANI on Tuesday.

    This got here after the executive minister chaired a gathering of JD(U) legislators and MPs on the place of abode of Kumar in Patna following the resignation of birthday party chief RCP Singh on Saturday.

    In the meantime, Congress and Left birthday party leaders and MLAs additionally converged lately on the place of abode of Rabri Devi right here for a gathering convened via the opposition RJD.

    The BJP additionally held a gathering of its best leaders at Deputy Leader Minister Tarkishor Prasad’s place of abode right here.

    ALSO READ | Bihar to peer MVA-like executive? Nitish might unload BJP in favour of RJD, Congress, Left

  • JD(U), RJD to carry parallel conferences amid hovering political temperatures in Bihar

    By way of PTI

    PATNA: Individuals of each properties of Parliament and state legislature, belonging to Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), converged right here on Tuesday to wait a gathering at his reputable place of dwelling, amid speculations of a big political transfer by way of the veteran chief, senior birthday celebration functionaries mentioned.

    The assembly is scheduled to start at 11 AM.

    Whilst the end result will probably be identified as soon as the assembly is over, greater than one of the vital potential attendees denied the birthday celebration’s ties with the BJP having worsened to an extent to name for a realignment.

    ““Our birthday celebration had held many such conferences of MPs and MLAs prior to now. Now we have been informed that the present assembly has been referred to as to speak about organisational issues. By no means heard about any primary disaster within the NDA,” mentioned Ram Nath Thakur, a Rajya Sabha member, low key however identified to experience proximity to the executive minister by way of distinctive feature of being the son of overdue Karpoori Thakur, the latter’s political mentor.

    Any other confidant of Kumar, Leshi Singh, who’s an MLA and a minister in his cupboard, mentioned, ““I used to be away for the remaining 4 or 5 days however I’ve an concept of the way issues had been. There does no longer appear to be any primary disaster going through the NDA govt. It is going with out announcing, even though, that the birthday celebration will abide by way of any determination taken by way of the executive minister”.”

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    In the meantime, MLAs of the opposition RJD, the biggest birthday celebration within the state meeting, have additionally been commanded by way of their chief Tejashwi Yadav to stay provide at a gathering which will probably be held at his mom Rabri Devi’s Round Highway bungalow, a stone’s throw from the CM’s Anney Marg place of dwelling.

    Chetan Anand, a tender RJD MLA who’s serving his first time period, mentioned, “Rumours of political realignment had been afloat for a few years. Allow us to no longer make any rash assumptions. As soon as the birthday celebration management takes any determination, it’ll be indubitably made identified to all.”

    READ HERE | Bihar Congress publicizes to increase its unconditional enhance to Nitish forward of the most important JDU meet

    PATNA: Individuals of each properties of Parliament and state legislature, belonging to Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), converged right here on Tuesday to wait a gathering at his reputable place of dwelling, amid speculations of a big political transfer by way of the veteran chief, senior birthday celebration functionaries mentioned.

    The assembly is scheduled to start at 11 AM.

    Whilst the end result will probably be identified as soon as the assembly is over, greater than one of the vital potential attendees denied the birthday celebration’s ties with the BJP having worsened to an extent to name for a realignment.

    ““Our birthday celebration had held many such conferences of MPs and MLAs prior to now. Now we have been informed that the present assembly has been referred to as to speak about organisational issues. By no means heard about any primary disaster within the NDA,” mentioned Ram Nath Thakur, a Rajya Sabha member, low key however identified to experience proximity to the executive minister by way of distinctive feature of being the son of overdue Karpoori Thakur, the latter’s political mentor.

    Any other confidant of Kumar, Leshi Singh, who’s an MLA and a minister in his cupboard, mentioned, ““I used to be away for the remaining 4 or 5 days however I’ve an concept of the way issues had been. There does no longer appear to be any primary disaster going through the NDA govt. It is going with out announcing, even though, that the birthday celebration will abide by way of any determination taken by way of the executive minister”.”

    ALSO READ | Bihar to peer MVA-like govt? Nitish would possibly unload BJP in favour of RJD, Congress, Left

    In the meantime, MLAs of the opposition RJD, the biggest birthday celebration within the state meeting, have additionally been commanded by way of their chief Tejashwi Yadav to stay provide at a gathering which will probably be held at his mom Rabri Devi’s Round Highway bungalow, a stone’s throw from the CM’s Anney Marg place of dwelling.

    Chetan Anand, a tender RJD MLA who’s serving his first time period, mentioned, “Rumours of political realignment had been afloat for a few years. Allow us to no longer make any rash assumptions. As soon as the birthday celebration management takes any determination, it’ll be indubitably made identified to all.”

    READ HERE | Bihar Congress publicizes to increase its unconditional enhance to Nitish forward of the most important JDU meet