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The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-strong meeting. The RJD, with 79 MLAs, is the one largest occasion, whereas the JD(U) has 45. (File picture/PTI)
New faces could, nonetheless, be inducted within the council of ministers from the allies RJD and the Congress, he informed reporters throughout his go to to Madhubani as a part of his ‘Samadhan Yatra’
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday categorically dominated out the potential for appointing one other deputy, aside from Tejashwi Yadav, ending speculations {that a} high chief of his JD(U) was being thought of for the job.
New faces could, nonetheless, be inducted within the council of ministers from the allies RJD and the Congress, he informed reporters throughout his go to to Madhubani as a part of his ‘Samadhan Yatra’.
“We’re a seven-party coalition and every constituent has a hard and fast share. These whose ministers vacated posts could also be accommodated accordingly. We could have some extra from the Congress as properly,” Kumar stated.
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 yr. Furthermore, Congress, which has been given two berths, has been looking for a illustration commensurate with its numerical power within the meeting.
The Congress has 19 MLAs within the 243-strong meeting. The RJD, with 79 MLAs, is the one largest occasion, whereas the JD(U) has 45.
With out mentioning Upendra Kushwaha by identify, who’s the JD(U) parliamentary board chief, Kumar stated “I’m amused to listen to this discuss having one other deputy CM. That is nonsense. I used to be compelled to have multiple deputy CM due to strain (from the BJP). I needn’t repeat that I didn’t even need to change into the CM then”.
After the 2020 meeting ballot, BJP dropped Kumar’s trusted buddy Sushil Kumar Modi because the deputy CM and backed two much less fancied leaders, Tarkishor Prasad and Renu Devi, for the highest publish.
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 Social gathering, 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 subsequent Lok Sabha polls.
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