He staked claim before Bihar governor Ramnath Kovind to form new government in the state. “A demand for help on social media campaign was received by us from the JD(U)”.
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Asked about the significance of the “Chhath” following the Grand Alliance’s resounding victory, Kumar said, “For Biharis, Chhath is a special festival every year”.
Nitish Kumar had invited Modi to the event. A number of leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are expected to attend the event.
While Siddaramaiah has accepted the invite, it is not certain he will attend the ceremony as the state legislature is in session. A senior JD(U) legislator said apart from PM, Nitish called other senior Union ministers, including Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley to invite them for the ceremony.
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to launch two portals dedicated to the life and works of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary on November 14. Taking a cue from Arvind Kejriwal, who shunned Delhi’s Raj Bhawan, to take oath in front of the crowds at Delhi Ram Lila Maidan, Nitish’s swearing-in will also unfurl at Gandhi Maidan in Patna.
The Bihar Chief Minister had strongly supported the AAP government in its confrontations with the Centre on a range of issues.
Lalu Prasad, his JD(U) counterpart Sharad Yadav, Congress General Secretary C P Joshi, JD(U) General Secretary K C Tyagi and state presidents of JD(U), RJD and Congress Basistha Narayan Singh, Ramchandra Purve and Ashok Choudhary respectively accompanied Kumar to the meeting with the Governor.
A party needs 122 for majority in the 243-member Bihar Assembly.
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An Indian election official marks a voter’s hand after casting her ballot at a voting centre in the village of Mahmoodpur in Samstipur district on October 12, 2015. Modi has mounted a no-holds barred campaign, promising Biharis billions of dollars for development in a state where many of its 104 million people still vote along caste lines. For, political analysts see the programme as coronation of the challenger of Narendra Modi regime in 2019.
