1. Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary has been eliminated. Mr Choudhary failed a no-confidence movement of his personal, with 125 members voting to sack him. Mr Choudhary is from Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, which was dumped final month by Nitish Kumar for the BJP, lower than two years after he lower ties with the saffron social gathering.

2. The BJP-JDU have 128 seats within the 243-member Meeting; the bulk mark is 122. The BJP has 78 seats to the JDU’s 45. 5 others on their facet are former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) and an impartial MLA.

3. The opposition – the Congress and the RJD – have 114 seats. The ultimate seat is vacant. The RJD, for what it’s value, is the only largest social gathering with 79 seats. The Congress has 19 and a Left Entrance 16, with the ultimate seat held by Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM.

4. The JDU-BJP will sail by this numbers take a look at, extra so because the newest reviews point out no less than three RJD lawmakers have been noticed sitting with Nitish Kumar; your complete belief vote was preceded by rumours of a number of RJD MLAs going ‘lacking’.

5. The JDU-BJP-HAM flock, Mr Manjhi stated Sunday, is holding robust. “All people is undamaged in NDA. Now we have 128 members and this determine might improve as a result of at present all people holds PM Modi’s management in excessive regard…” he was quoted by information company ANI.

6. In that context, senior law enforcement officials visited the Patna residence of RJD boss Tejashwi Yadav, who was Nitish Kumar’s deputy, late Sunday night after his social gathering’s Chetan Anand was declared “lacking”. Mr Anand was one of many three MLAs noticed sitting in Nitish Kumar’s facet of the Meeting on this session.

7. Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister for a ninth time final month, saying the mahagathbandhan, the alliance with long-time rival/pal Lalu Yadav’s RJD, was “not proper”.

8. Sources, nevertheless, stated Nitish was extra upset concerning the lack of readability within the INDIA opposition bloc’s ballot prep for the 2024 Lok Sabha election, due in just a few weeks. He was reportedly additionally upset over the bloc snubbing him as a attainable prime ministerial face.

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

10. The JDU-BJP tie-up has additionally been seen as a vital win for the latter social gathering earlier than the Lok Sabha election. Bihar sends 40 MPs to the Decrease Home, and the JDU received 16 of the 17 seats it contested in 2019.

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