Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar CM for eighth time today

Janata Dal United or JD U supremo Nitish Kumar is all set to take the oath as Bihar's Chief Minister for the eighth time today. The Grand Alliance was created after Kumar announced that it includes Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD and other parties. Besides Kumar, Tejashwi is likely to take the oath as Deputy Chief Minister.

Nitish Kumar announced yesterday that the RJD is going to part ways with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance NDA All JD U MLAs and MPs supported Kumar s decision to quit the NDA.

Nitish Kumar will take the oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the eighth time. According to a tweet by the RJD, the swearing-in ceremony will take place at Raj Bhavan at 2 pm.

The RJD has the highest number of MLAs and will have 16 ministers whereas the JD U will have 13 ministers in the cabinet.

Congress and Hindustani Awam Morcha HAM will have four and one minister. There will be 35 MLAs who take the oath as ministers eventually.

Tejashwi Yadav attacked the BJP and said the saffron party does not have any alliance partners across the Hindi heartland. Yadav accused the BJP of trying to destroy parties with whom it forms alliances.

Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor Phagu Chauhan and a list of 164 MLAs. The state assembly of Bihar has 242 seats and the halfway mark is 122.

We decided to quit the NDA at the party meeting. Kumar said after tendering his resignation as the CM, I have resigned as the NDA's chief minister.

The BJP has 77 seats in the Bihar Assembly. RJD has 77 seats, JD U 45, Congress 19 and the left are led by CPIML L 16.

JD U has also support of four MLAs belonging to former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM and an independent.

JD U is the third major alliance partner to leave the NDA in three years after Shiromani Akali Dal SAD and Shiv Sena.