Patna: The Mahagathbandhan of seven political events led by chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday gained the belief vote within the Bihar Meeting. A complete of 160 MLAs voted in favour of the arrogance movement moved by the brand new authorities whereas no votes had been in opposition to it because the Opposition BJP staged a walkout throughout Nitish Kumar’s speech.

Earlier within the day, Meeting Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha resigned from the publish amid an enormous political drama. He introduced that JD(U) chief Narendra Narayan Yadav would preside over the session as a substitute of deputy speaker Maheshwar Hazari.

The motion was, nevertheless, known as “unconstitutional” by parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary. Because the Home convened once more within the second half, deputy speaker Maheshwar Hazari was welcomed by the Mahagathbandhan and he presided over the belief vote within the Meeting.

“I convened the Home in an neutral method for 20 months with the assist of all of the members from each the treasury and opposition. I hope this could proceed in future additionally”, Mr Vijay Kumar Sinha stated earlier than asserting his resignation from the publish on Wednesday.

Forward of the belief vote, chief minister Nitish Kumar known as for a united Opposition to tackle the BJP on the Centre within the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. He stated: “We’re collectively now and have taken a pledge to work for the event of Bihar. Many individuals known as to congratulate me after I fashioned this alliance however I urged them to unite and battle collectively to win the subsequent Lok Sabha election”.

He added that “the nation can not progress on false guarantees and narratives. Some persons are solely fascinated about fanning hatred between Hindus and Muslims. These are the individuals who don’t need to spare even Bapu, as they’d no function within the freedom battle. However now we have come collectively and can battle in opposition to all this”.

Throughout the debate on the movement, Mr Nitish Kumar stated that the “Central authorities wished to take the credit score of all of the state authorities’s scheme”. He went on to focus on the BJP MLAs by saying that the “Har Ghar Jal” scheme was additionally the state authorities’s scheme which the Centre tried to hijack. He stated: “Even the scheme for roads in rural areas was launched throughout Atal Behari Vajpayee’s time. All of you current within the Home at this time should be aware of these items. Few of you weren’t there and will not know. The Centre doesn’t deserve credit score for these schemes”.

Throughout his speech, Nitish Kumar hinted that after becoming a member of palms with the BJP in July 2017, he was not comfy. He additionally reminded the BJP that his celebration JD(U) within the 2005 and 2010 Meeting elections gained extra seats than the BJP.

Throughout his speech within the Meeting, Nitish Kumar went on to say that he had nothing in opposition to the BJP in Bihar however a few of their senior leaders like Sushil Kumar Modi, Prem Kumar, Nand Kishore Yadav and Vinod Narayan Jha had been sidelined of their celebration regardless of having a superb rapport with him.

“These leaders had a superb rapport with me however after they bought sidelined by their celebration throughout the formation of the federal government I believed that they had been as much as one thing. Even then I didn’t do something however took the step after the scenario turned tough for me”, Mr Kumar stated.

He stated that “veteran leaders like Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.Ok. Advani” had handled him “with respect”, and added that he had snapped ties with the BJP in 2013 after “they had been sidelined within the celebration”.

Mr Nitish Kumar had lower off the JD(U)’s ties with the BJP-led NDA on August 9 and introduced his alliance with the RJD, Congress and different Opposition events in Bihar on August 10.

Within the present situation, Nitish Kumar has the assist of seven political events and 164 members within the 243-member Meeting. The Opposition BJP has 77 seats within the Home.

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