1. Moments after Nitish Kumar sought the Meeting’s help, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Tejashwi Yadav spoke, and commenced by accusing the Chief Minister of betraying the folks.

2. In a prolonged speech crammed with 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 ‘assure’ he will not flip once more?” he requested to cheers of approval from occasion members.

3. Tejashwi Yadav additionally hit out on the determination 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 glad Karpoori Thakur obtained Bharat Ratna. They (the BJP) made a deal… ‘include us and we provides you with (the JDU) a Bharat Ratna’…” he declared.

4. After Mr Yadav’s speech the RJD, the Congress, and the Left Entrance – all former allies of Nitish Kumar – walked out of the Meeting.

5. Earlier Awadh Bihari Choudhary was eliminated 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 minimize ties with the BJP.

6. The BJP-JDU have 128 seats within the 243-member Meeting; 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 Entrance 16. The JDU-BJP will clear this take a look at, extra so since three RJD lawmakers are with Nitish Kumar; all the vote was preceded by rumours of a number of going “lacking”.

7. 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 “lacking”. Mr Anand was one of many three MLAs noticed sitting in Nitish Kumar’s aspect of the Meeting on this session.

8. Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister for a ninth time final month, saying the mahagathbandhan – the alliance the RJD – was “not proper”. Sources, nevertheless, mentioned Nitish was extra upset in regards to 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.

9. Because of this, Nitish Kumar ditched the mahagathbandan and INDIA and fashioned a brand new authorities with the BJP. Usually mocked as “paltu Kumar”, for his many flip-flops, the Bihar Chief Minister met PM Modi in Delhi final week, after which he mentioned he would “by no means” once more depart the party-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance.

10. 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 Celebration each mentioned they intend to go their very own method, for now.

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