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Nitish Kumar’s oath for record 8th time today: 10 points

August 10, 2022
Bharat Times

Tejashwi Yadav will serve as Deputy Chief Minister and will take oath along with Nitish Kumar

Patna:
Nitish Kumar will take oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar at 2 pm today, he quit the BJP on Tuesday and announced a new “Mahagathbandhan”, which includes Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition parties.

Here are the 10 latest developments from this big story:

  1. Nitish Kumar will take oath as Chief Minister for the eighth time and Tejashwi Yadav will take oath as Deputy Chief Minister. No other MLA will be administered the oath of office today.

  2. The BJP held massive protests in Patna today, accusing Nitish Kumar of betraying the mandate. Announcing plans to hold protests in districts as well, state BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal said that the people of Bihar will never forgive Nitish Kumar.

  3. Tarkishore Prasad, who was deputy chief minister in the BJP-Janata Dal (United) government, told NDTV that he had tried his best to keep the alliance going. He said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken to Nitish Kumar in this regard.

  4. Mr Kumar had said yesterday that the new ruling alliance would be a “grand alliance (grand alliance) of seven parties”. He said the decision to part ways with the BJP for the second time in nine years was based on the response he received in his interaction with the party’s MLAs this morning.

  5. Tejashwi Yadav will serve as Deputy Chief Minister and will take oath along with Mr. Kumar. “The BJP betrays all its allies and threatens others,” he said at a news briefing along with Nitish Kumar.

  6. Switching partners in the medium term is an established feature of Nitish Kumar and has drawn heavy criticism for his ideological flexibility and willingness to trade principles for power. Until 2013, Nitish Kumar was in partnership with the BJP, although it was a fractured collaboration after it became clear that Narendra Modi would emerge as the main leader of the BJP. He broke ties with the BJP and formed the government with Lalu Yadav and Congress in 2015. Bihar’s veteran leader Lalu Yadav is the father of Tejashwi Yadav. In 2017, Nitish Kumar walked out of the three-party alliance, claiming that Tejashwi Yadav’s insatiable corruption as a minister could not be tolerated by him.

  7. Since his reunion with the BJP, the parties have exchanged public criticism on issues big and small. In June, Nitish Kumar contradicted the prime minister by saying that the Center had refused to conduct a caste census, while Bihar would actually count castes. Tejashwi Yadav fully supported him on this step.

  8. Nitish Kumar’s anger towards the BJP has crossed the danger mark over reports of Union Home Minister Amit Shah rigging the JD(U) for defectors. The Chief Minister felt that a senior leader of his party, RCP Singh, who had joined the Union Cabinet, was being used to turn JDU against him. That’s why he refused to extend RCP Singh’s term in the Rajya Sabha, which meant he had to resign from PM Modi’s cabinet later. Over the weekend, Nitish Kumar’s aides publicly accused RCP Singh of corruption; In protest, he left JDU.

  9. Nitish Kumar felt that RCP Singh was part of a second conspiracy by the BJP to undermine his position, the first being that of another regional leader Chirag to act as a vote-cutter for Nitish Kumar in the last general election. Paswan had tacit support of BJP. , Chirag Paswan fielded his party’s candidate against JDU; Only BJP benefited. As Nitish Kumar started roaring against Chirag Paswan, the BJP refused to criticize him.

  10. Nitish Kumar realized that Amit Shah was attempting to replicate the Maharashtra model in Bihar and ended the BJP alliance to pre-empt it. Uddhav Thackeray was forced to step down as chief minister after a senior leader of his party, Shiv Sena, Eknath Shinde, in partnership with the BJP, instigated a massive rebellion. Eknath Shinde was awarded the post of Chief Minister of Maharashtra by BJP.