Nitish Kumar wins trust vote | Key updates

Nitish led JD (U)-NDA government has a support of 132 MLAs, which will help it to prove a comfortable majority in the 243 member state assembly where 122 MLAs are required to prove majority.
Nitish Kumar (File photo)
Nitish Kumar (File photo)

PATNA: The Nitish Kumar government today won the crucial confidence vote in the Bihar Assembly.

The ruling coalition of the JD(U), BJP and others got 131 votes while the opposition got 108 votes, Speaker Vijay Kumar Chowdhury said.

The trust vote was taken through lobby division.

The NDA had earlier submitted a list of 132 MLAs to the governor. These include 71 of JD(U), BJP 53, RLSP two, LJP two, HAM one and three Independents.

In the 243-member Bihar Assembly, the RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the CPI-ML has three.

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RJD MLAs protest outside Bihar assembly. (ANI)
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CM Nitish Kumar at the Bihar Assembly in Patna on Friday. (ANI)
CM Nitish Kumar at the Bihar Assembly in Patna on Friday. (ANI)
  • Nitish led JD (U)-NDA government has a support of 132 MLAs, which will help it to prove a comfortable majority in the 243 member state assembly where 122 MLAs are required to prove majority.

  • According to the communiqué issued from the Raj Bhawan, Nitish has claimed the support of 131 members, including the BJP, two independents and legislators of BJP allies Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM)-Secular and Rashtriya Lok Samata party (RLSP).

  • Opposition RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the CPI-ML 3.

  • Security arrangements have been made in and around the assembly building ahead of the floor test.

Yesterday, Nitish and BJP leader Sushil Modi were sworn-in as Bihar Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively, and former has been asked to prove his majority on the floor by Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi. [FULL REPORT]

Nitish, on July 26 resigned as Bihar Chief Minister citing political differences with former ally, Lalu Prasad Yadav led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), over corruption charges against the RJD supremo’s son Tejashwi Yadav.
 
He, however, on Thursday, took oath as Bihar chief minister for the sixth time, marking a historic transition of the state from a Grand Alliance government to an NDA regime.

(With inputs from PTI and ANI)

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