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During his 30-minute speech before the voice vote, Kumar launched a scathing attack against the BJP and its way of doing politics. He also made an indirect reference to the rebellion by Chirag Paswan of the LJP, allegedly at the behest of the BJP, and the attempted split in the JD(U) through his former ally RCP Singh.
Insisting that he has “no personal ambitions”, Kumar dismissed the BJP’s allegation that his latest vote was aimed at becoming the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition camp.
Here are the top five quotes from his speech:
- We (RJD and)
JDU We have resolved to work together for the development of Bihar. Leaders across the country called me and congratulated on this decision and I urged them all to fight together in 2024 elections, the CM said. - leaders like atal ji
Bihari Vajpayee and lkAdvani Treated me with respect. Kumar said that I had severed ties with the BJP in 2013 to protest the sidelining of Advani and other senior leaders. - Vajpayee’s government approved several development schemes for Bihar, for which the Modi-led Center is taking the credit today. In 2017, when I demanded central status to
Patna University , nobody paid any attention to it. Now you (central government) will do the same to advertise your work. He has control over social media and the press. Everyone is only talking about the work of the Centre. The JD(U) chief said that what is happening outside Delhi today is propaganda. - Their (BJP) only job is to create disturbance in the society. The Chief Minister said that all the parties in Bihar have come together to defeat the agenda of BJP in the state.
- You [BJP] We were talking about the 75th year of independence. Where were you in the freedom struggle? In the end Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) will also be eliminated. We have come together. We will put everything in front of every village and every section of the society. Their job is only to create trouble in the society. When everyone comes together, no one will ask about them.”
With the opposition bench vacant, Kumar comfortably won the voice vote.
However, Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari ordered the count at the request of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, who said that although a voice vote had clearly shown majority support, the count would “leave no room for any confusion.” “.
Kumar won the confidence motion by 160 votes in the 243-member Bihar Assembly. The majority test was mostly a formality.
Some BJP MLAs, who staged a walkout during Kumar’s speech, created a ruckus in the House and demanded that the deputy speaker should not waste unnecessary numbers of time, but take up the businesses scheduled for the day and announce a boycott of the proceedings.
Later, the proceedings were adjourned till Friday by the Deputy Speaker, who also informed the House that the nomination papers for the election of the new Speaker would be filed on Thursday, a post vacant on the resignation of BJP’s Vijay Kumar Sinha. It is done.
(with inputs from agencies)