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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar won the floor test in the absence of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly on Monday. As many as 129 MLAs voted in favour of the Bihar government led by Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
More than two weeks after he joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a ninth time, Nitish Kumar will face a floor test in the Bihar Assembly on Monday.
Although the break-up of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP in 2020 amid the farm law protests was acrimonious, whispers of a reconciliation between the BJP and its oldest NDA ally have been floating since the Union government repealed the three contentious farm laws in 2021.
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.
In another jibe at his party, senior Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam said that the opposition INDIA bloc no longer exists and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar performed its last rites in Patna. The remarks came as fissures were clearly visible in the opposition INDIA bloc as regional parties are asserting their dominance against the Congress while Nitish Kumar jumped ship again to go with NDA.
The opposition INDIA bloc is in the grip of a political crisis as a key alliance partner, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, ditched the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ and returned to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA (National Democratic Alliance) fold ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticised Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and reiterated that 'Mahagathbandhan' will continue fighting for social justice in the state and the alliance does not need CM for the cause.
A day after JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar walked out of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) to rejoin the BJP-led NDA and become the Chief Minister for the ninth time, RJD national vice president and veteran socialist leader Shivanand Tiwari speaks to The Indian Express on various issues ranging from Nitish’s move and its ramifications for the Opposition camp to RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav’s political trajectory. Excerpts: