Amid the huddles and the anxious wait ahead of the trust vote in Bihar, the ruling Janata Dal (United), which faces its first big test on the floor of the Assembly after its return to the BJP-led NDA, shifted its MLAs to a hotel near the legislature.
Hours before the Trust Vote of the new Bihar government that is scheduled for tomorrow, back-to-back meetings were held by the ruling and the opposition parties. In a new development senior police officers of Patna made a brief visit to Tejashwi Yadav's government bungalow late night on Sund
Notably, the trust vote of the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar is scheduled for February 12. Nitish Kumar, earlier this month, had dumped the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the INDIA bloc to form a new government with the support of the BJP in Bihar.
Ahead of the Trust Vote of the new Bihar government tomorrow, Former Bihar Chief Minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) chief Jitan Ram Manjhi held a Vidhan Mandal Dal meeting at his residence on Sunday.
Ahead of the floor test on Monday where chief minister Nitish Kumar will have to prove his majority after he ditched the Mahagathbandhan -- an alliance of the RJD, the Congress and the Left parties in Bihar to join NDA, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLA Shalini Mishra, who did not attend the p
Ahead of the floor test in Bihar tomorrow, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha said that to remove the speaker of the assembly, the JD (U) and BJP need the votes of half the total members, i.e., out of the 243 members in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, the NDA will need 122 votes.
Ahead of the trust vote of the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar, scheduled for February 12, the Janata Dal-United JD-U has issued a three-line whip to all of its MLAs to be present during the floor test.
Following the outcome of the Jharkhand Floor Test, BJP MLA CP Singh expressed his discontentment with the results, emphasizing that while the ruling party secured the majority and won the Trust Vote, it does not absolve them of their alleged wrongdoings.
Congratulating the newly formed government of Jharkhand, led by Chief Minister Champai Soren, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi hailed opposition unity and said that alliance unity managed to defeat the "politics of money power and horse-trading".