Bihar Politics: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a meeting with his trusted ministers and MLAs at his residence on Friday evening after returning from a tea ceremony organized at Raj Bhavan here. The Chief Minister has also called a meeting with all the JDU MLAs at his residence on Saturday. There is speculation that Nitish Kumar will soon take oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time with the support of his previous ally BJP.
Sources said the BJP will get two deputy CM posts to support Nitish Kumar, as was done after the 2020 assembly elections. According to sources, Nitish Kumar is planning to form a government in Bihar with BJP and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). During the meeting on Friday evening, Nitish Kumar’s trusted leaders like Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Lalan Singh, Ashok Chaudhary, Bijendra Gupta and Sanjay Jha were present at the CM residence.
All JDU MLAs asked to reach Patna
Meanwhile, the CMO has asked all JDU MLAs to reach Patna by Friday night. It is expected that Nitish Kumar will announce his resignation before him and will also give an explanation as to why he took such a step. After the meeting, Nitish Kumar will officially submit his resignation to Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar. He will also stake claim to form the government with the support of BJP and HAM.
At present JDU has 45 MLAs
At present JDU has 45 MLAs, BJP has 76 and HAM has 4 MLAs, making a total of 125 MLAs, which is three more than the magic figure of 122 required to form the government. It will be interesting, if some MLAs do not come to Saturday’s meeting, because it can make it difficult for Nitish Kumar as well as NDA. Apart from JDU, BJP and RJD have also called a meeting of their MLAs on Saturday. RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav is keeping a close eye on the situation.
All the MLAs of the party have been instructed to attend this meeting. All the big leaders of the party will participate in this meeting. At present there are 79 MLAs of RJD, 19 of Congress and 12 of Left parties. At the same time, BJP has also called a meeting of the legislature party at 4 pm on Saturday evening. Politically, this meeting is being considered very important.
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