Nitish Kumar’s Oath Today, Tejashwi Yadav To Be Deputy: 10 Facts

Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Minister – for the eighth time – and Tejashwi Yadav will be sworn in as Deputy Minister. No other MLA will be sworn in as minister today, it is drawn.

“Mahagathbandhan (Grand Coalition) of seven parties, one independent will work closely together,” Nitish Kumar said after a second meeting with the Governor yesterday. In the first, he resigned as Minister of the government that included his party, Janata Dal United or JDU, and the BJP; less than an hour later, he returned to the Governor, along with Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition leaders, to declare that they should be invited to form the next government based on their synergy.

“I have resigned, I have informed all my MLAs,” Nitish Kumar said after the first session with the Governor. He said the decision to split from the BJP – for the second time in nine years – was based on feedback he received this morning while interacting with his party’s lawmakers.

Even while his party was in session, Tejashwi Yadav, 32, held a session parallel to his MLA where it was agreed that they would support Nitish Kumar in a new government. Tejashwi Yadav will hold the post of Deputy Minister and take the oath along with Mr. Kumar. “The BJP betrayed all its allies and threatened others,” he said at a press conference with Nitish Kumar.

The BJP accused Nitish Kumar of “betraying the trust of the people” by switching partners midterm. However, this is a confirmed characteristic of Nitish Kumar and one that has caused great criticism for his flexibility of thought and his willingness to trade principles for power. The BJP announced a statewide protest against Nitish Kumar’s move.

Up until 2013, Nitish Kumar collaborated with the BJP, although it was an unsuccessful partnership when it became clear that Narendra Modi would become the main leader of the BJP. He severed ties with the BJP and in 2015 formed a government with Lalu Yadav and the National Assembly. Lalu Yadav, a veteran politician of Bihar, is the father of Tejashwi Yadav. In 2017, Nitish Kumar withdrew from the tripartite coalition, claiming that Tejashwi Yadav’s insatiable corruption as a minister could not be tolerated.

After he reunited with the BJP, the parties exchanged public criticism on issues big and small. In June, Nitish Kumar contradicted the Prime Minister by claiming that while the center refused to conduct a caste census, in Bihar the actual counting of votes would take place. Tejashwi Yadav has fully supported him on this move.

Nitish Kumar’s anger at the BJP broke the danger signal due to reports that the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, was looking for defectors in the JDU. The minister feels that RCP Singh, a senior leader from his party who has joined the union cabinet, is being used against the JDU. Hence, he refused to extend RCP Singh’s term in Rajya Sabha which meant that the latter had to resign from Prime Minister Modi’s cabinet. Over the weekend, aides to Nitish Kumar publicly accused RCP Singh of corruption; in protest, he left JDU.

Nitish Kumar felt that RCP Singh was part of a second BJP plot to undermine his position, the first being the BJP’s tacit support of another regional leader, Chirag Paswan, to become to cut votes for Nitish Kumar in the last general election. . Chirag Paswan pits his party’s candidates against the JDU; BJP itself has achieved. When Nitish Kumar attacked Chirag Paswan, the BJP refused to criticize him.

Nitish Kumar feels that Amit Shah is trying to repeat the Maharashtra model in Bihar and has ended the BJP alliance to overcome that. Uddhav Thackeray was forced to step down as Minister after Eknath Shinde, a senior leader in his party, Shiv Sena, incited a major uprising in cooperation with the BJP. Eknath Shinde was awarded by BJP as Chief Minister of Maharashtra.