Later, he will be elected leader of the legislature party of the Grand Alliance.
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At 10, Circular Road, where RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi live, the occasion was equally festive with their eldest daughter Misa Bharati and other family members were seen cooking food for the family and guests.
Nitish handed over a copy of the resolution of the Cabinet meeting to the governor who accepted his recommendation and asked him to continue as the caretaker chief minister till the formation of the next government.
The immediacy with which the government has run a few quick decisions through executive orders right after the election results does point to a few urgency for a new political narrative for the PM. Would the ragtag alliance of former rivals not only hold but stop the BJP election juggernaut?
The oath taking ceremony of Nitish Kumar as Chief Minister will be at Gandhi Maidan in Patna next Friday.
The RJD emerged as the single largest party in the 243-seat house with 80 assembly seats followed by the JD-U (71) and the Congress (27 seats).
Nitish Kumar to be swron in as new Chief Minister of Bihar 20th november. Following are the five interesting facts the Bihar poll result has thrown. But here I doff my hat to the astute Bihar voter who has distinguished between a state election and a General Election where they gave the NDA more than three quarters of the seats. The RJD has more numbers than the JD(U) in the assembly, but Lalu would do well not to use his superiority in numbers to constrain or pressure Nitish Kumar.
But despite a high stake, what exactly have led to BJP’s drubbing in Bihar polls.
The people of Bihar voted for Modi in the Lok Sabha polls and Nitish Kumar in the Assembly elections.
There are multiple reasons attributed to the rout of the BJP in the Bihar assembly elections.
“Then I sought an end to “Bihari Vs Bahari” debate that raged during recent Bihar campaign since I believed that no countryman could be termed as outsider in that state”, Sinha said. Though it had developed an electoral-political base in Bihar, the BJP’s leaders could not be credited with any intellectual understanding of the social situation in Bihar.
But while Dhoni is still a sport and his failure makes occasional strong impact, the BJP’s twin defeats in Delhi and Bihar within a gap of nine months have put Prime Minister Modi’s captaincy, which is more real than a game, under a considerable threat, even within his own party. But who could have spoken up against Modi or, for that matter, Amit Shah who camped throughout the poll period in the state?
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It was the numerical preponderance of the triad of Muslims, Yadavs and Kurmis, constituting 35 per cent of the total electorate, and their active and decisive consolidation behind Mahagathbandhan that ensured the resounding victory for the alliance in the first place. For our external partners, India’s economic opening is of critical interest, not the electoral ups and downs in state level elections that do not threaten the survival of the Union government.
