Tomorrow Nitish Kumar to Return as Bihar CM With BJP Support

Tomorrow Nitish Kumar to Return as Bihar CM With BJP Support

With BJP offering its support to Nitish Kumar for forming a government, he is now set to return as the chief minister of Bihar.

Kumar is due to take oath tomorrow evening, ANI reported.

According to an NDTV report, the JD(U) currently has 71 lawmakers in the 243-member state assembly. With the BJP’s support, Kumar’s party will have 124 – over the halfway mark.

Sources told CNN-News18 that Sushil Modi, BJP’s senior leader in the state, could become the deputy chief minister.

Central leaders J.P. Nadda and Anil Jain are due to arrive in Bihar tomorrow (July 27) to oversee the political developments, NDTV reported.
Kumar today (July 26) thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for welcoming his decision to resign and congratulating him on “joining the fighting against corruption.”

He tendered his resignation just hours after Lalu Prasad Yadav stated that his son Tejashwi Yadav would not resign as the deputy chief minister.

Kumar’s resignation as the chief minister of Bihar has drawn the curtain on the two-year-long mahagathbandhan between the JD(U), RJD and the Congress.

RJD president Lalu Prasad’s comment came after the CBI filed a FIR against Tejashwi, naming him as an accused in the land-for-hotels corruption case.

Addressing the media from his residence in Patna, Lalu Prasad said that he had asked Kumar to sort out their differences and told him that the corruption cases were false. “Nitish [Kumar] wanted an RSS free India.”

The RJD chief added that Kumar’s resignation was “nothing but a drama” and he had resigned not because of the corruption charges against Tejashwi but because there was a “murder charge going against him under section 302.”