Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s new Grand Alliance authorities received the belief vote within the meeting at present. The BJP walked out in protest throughout his tackle forward of the voting.
Within the voting that adopted after the BJP walkout, Kumar acquired all 160 votes. With 164 MLAs supporting Nitish Kumar’s authorities within the 243-member Bihar meeting, the take a look at of majority was principally a formality.
In his speech in the course of the debate on the movement of confidence, Tejashwi Yadav — chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal and Kumar’s new deputy, mentioned the brand new partnership might be “historic”. “It is a endless innings, it will likely be historic. Our partnership might be lengthy. Nobody goes to be run out,” Tejashwi Yadav mentioned.
Throughout the debate, the BJP’s Tarakishore Prasad ripped into Nitish Kumar, his former boss, saying he has misplaced “political credibility”. The previous Deputy Chief Minister mocked Kumar’s “private ambition to turn into the prime minister regardless of not being able to turn into the chief minister on his personal steam”.
The meeting session began with Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, a BJP member, stepping down in response to a no-confidence movement in opposition to him by the Grand Alliance. The ground take a look at was chaired by Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari, who’s from Kumar’s Janata Dal (United).
Hours earlier than the belief vote, the properties of a number of RJD leaders — Sunil Singh, Subodh Rai, Dr Faiyaz Ahmad and Ashfaque Karim — had been raided by the CBI in reference to a “land-for-jobs” rip-off relationship again to social gathering chief Lalu Yadav’s tenure as Union Railway minister within the UPA-I authorities.
In Meeting, Tejashwi Yadav ripped into the BJP, saying, “Are you attempting to say that every one the property within the nation belongs to Tejaswi Yadav? The one that introduced the railways into revenue is going through circumstances and people who are promoting the railways and the nation, nothing will occur to them”.
Tejashwi Yadav additionally made a number of robust remarks, accusing the NJP of utilizing the Central investigating companies each time it’s “scared”. “A story is being created. For those who be a part of arms with the BJP, then you might be Harishchandra (a king from mythology identified for his honesty and truthfulness). Else you’re a prison, a rapist, and the ED and the CBI might be set after you,” he mentioned
With inputs from NDTV
