1. Moments after Nitish Kumar sought the Assembly’s support, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Tejashwi Yadav spoke, and started by accusing the Chief Minister of betraying the individuals.

2. In a prolonged speech full of sarcastic jibes and takedowns of his former ally, Mr Yadav warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the JDU chief’s ‘paltu Kumar’ sobriquet. “Can PM ‘guarantee’ he won’t flip again?” he requested to cheers of approval from occasion members.

3. Tejashwi Yadav additionally hit out on the resolution to award former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who was Nitish Kumar‘s mentor, suggesting the honour was a part of a “deal”. “I’m joyful Karpoori Thakur acquired Bharat Ratna. They (the BJP) made a deal… ‘come with us and we will give you (the JDU) a Bharat Ratna‘…” he declared.

4. Earlier Awadh Bihari Choudhary was removed as Speaker; he failed a no-confidence movement of his personal, with 125 members voting to sack him. Mr Choudhary is from the RJD, which was dumped final month by Nitish Kumar, lower than two years after he reduce ties with the BJP.

5. The BJP-JDU have 128 seats in the 243-member Assembly; the bulk mark is 122. The BJP has 78 seats. The JDU has 45. The RJD has 79 seats, the Congress 19, and a Left Front 16. The JDU-BJP will clear this take a look at, extra so since three RJD lawmakers are sitting with Nitish Kumar; all the belief vote was preceded by rumours of a number of RJD MLAs going “missing”.

6. In that context, senior law enforcement officials visited the Patna residence Tejashwi Yadav late Sunday night, after his occasion’s lawmaker, Chetan Anand was declared “missing”. Mr Anand was one of many three MLAs noticed sitting in Nitish Kumar’s facet of the Assembly on this session.

7. Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister for a ninth time last month, saying the mahagathbandhan – the alliance the RJD – was “not right”. Sources, nevertheless, stated Nitish was extra upset concerning the lack of readability within the INDIA opposition bloc’s ballot prep. He was reportedly additionally upset over the bloc snubbing him as a doable prime ministerial face.

8. As a outcome, Nitish Kumar ditched the mahagathbandan and INDIA and fashioned a brand new authorities with the BJP. Often mocked as “paltu Kumar”, for his many flip-flops, the Bihar Chief Minister met PM Modi in Delhi final week, after which he stated he would “never” once more depart the party-led National Democratic Alliance.

9. Nitish Kumar’s quitting of INDIA has left the bloc – fashioned final 12 months to unite the opposition and defeat the BJP – on the verge of breaking apart, after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Aam Aadmi Party each stated they intend to go their very own approach, for now.

10. The JDU-BJP tie-up has additionally been seen as a vital win for the latter earlier than a Lok Sabha election due in a number of weeks. Bihar sends 40 MPs to the Lower House. In the final election he JDU and the BJP, as allies, contested 17 seats every and the JDU received 16 seats.

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