BJP as partner, Nitish Kumar may take oath as CM for record 9th time

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PATNA: The Mandapam at Raj Bhavan is ready for JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar CM for the 9th time, either on Sunday evening or Monday morning, depending on the availability of BJP national president J P Nadda or Union home minister Amit Shah, or both...

NDA government. in Bihar, top sources said.. Nitish will meet his party MLAs early morning followed by a joint meeting of the NDA legislators and MPs, likely to be held at his residence, before either submitting his resignation or dismissing the RJD ministers and submitting a fresh letter of support from BJP and HAM(S) to the governor...

Soon after the NDA legislators' party meeting, Nitish - accompanied by some senior leaders of the BJP, JD(U) and HAM(S)- would march to the Raj Bhawan where he would tender his resignation to the governor..

It was a double whammy for RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday when his party was on the verge of being deprived of power in Bihar and a Delhi court summoning his wife and former CM Rabri Devi and their daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav on February 9, while taking cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) chargesheet against them in the land-for-jobs scam in railways..

Though the political scene in Bihar has been clear since Lalu's daughter Rohini Acharya's posts on X after the 100th birth anniversary address by CM Nitish Kumar on January 24 while obliquely attacking Lalu in the name of "dynastic politics", the latter asked his party legislators to let JD(U) take the first step of formally dissolving the present government. But Neeraj made it clear when he told TOI, "Hamare hath mein tir hai aur tir Prabhu Ram ke hath mein hai..

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