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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (L) with deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav. (File pic/PTI)
The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-strong meeting. The RJD, with 79 MLAs, is the one largest social gathering, whereas the JD(U) has 45.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar categorically dominated out the potential of appointing one other deputy, aside from Tejashwi Yadav, ending speculations {that a} high chief of his JD(U) was being thought-about for the job.
New faces might, nonetheless, be inducted within the council of ministers from the allies RJD and the Congress, he instructed reporters throughout his go to to Madhubani on Wednesday as a part of his ‘Samadhan Yatra’.
“We’re a seven-party coalition and every constituent has a set share. These whose ministers vacated posts could also be accommodated accordingly. We might have some extra from the Congress as properly,” Kumar mentioned.
Two ministers from the RJD quota – Sudhakar Singh and Kartik Kumar resigned inside a few months of the formation of the Grand Alliance authorities in August final 12 months. Furthermore, the Congress, which has been given two berths, has been looking for a illustration commensurate with its numerical energy within the meeting.
The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-strong meeting. The RJD, with 79 MLAs, is the one largest social gathering, whereas the JD(U) has 45.
With out mentioning Upendra Kushwaha by identify, who’s the JD(U) parliamentary board chief, Kumar mentioned “I’m amused to listen to this discuss having one other deputy CM. That is nonsense. I used to be compelled to have a couple of deputy CM due to strain (from the BJP). I needn’t repeat that I didn’t even need to grow to be the CM then”.
After the 2020 meeting ballot, BJP had dropped Kumar’s trusted good friend Sushil Kumar Modi because the deputy chief minister and backed two much less fancied leaders, Tarkishor Prasad and Renu Devi, for the DyCM put up.
Of late there have been livid speculations in a piece of the media that Kushwaha, a former union minister who returned to the JD(U)) two years in the past and merged his Rashtriya Lok Samata Get together, may very well be made a deputy chief minister to chop to measurement Tejashwi Yadav who’s from the RJD.
Kumar has dropped ample hints that he needs to go on the mantle to Yadav, the son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, his rival-turned-ally. He has additionally been hinting that he wished to commit his energies in the direction of uniting the opposition in opposition to the BJP forward of the following Lok Sabha polls.
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