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The ruling NDA finalised its seat-sharing in Bihar for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls Monday, allotting 17 seats to the BJP, 16 to the JD(U), five to the Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and one each to Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM).
Despite his frequent political flip-flops, Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar is out to remind everyone that there is one thing he has stood by steadfastly — the demand of “special category” status for Bihar from the Centre.
Amid allegations that both political alliances in Bihar — the ruling NDA with the JD(U), BJP and HAM(S), and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) with the RJD, Congress, and three Left parties — are trying to poach MLAs from each other’s camp, all political parties are set to issue whips for their legislators to vote in the February 12 trial of strength in the state Assembly along party lines or face disqualification.
The big political question of Saturday is this: What will Nitish Kumar’s deal with the BJP look like?
A day after Bihar education official K K Pathak, the increasingly prominent additional chief secretary of the department, returned to work, scotching rumours of his resignation, the state government on Saturday removed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Chandra Shekhar as the education minister and named him the minister of the low-profile sugarcane department. The government replaced him with senior RJD leader Alok Kumar Mehta, a long-trusted aide of party chief Lalu Prasad who held the ministry of revenue and land reforms.