Patna: Nitish Kumar on Thursday took oath as Bihar Chief Minister with the Bharatiya Janata Party as a partner of his Janata Dal-United, within hours of quitting the Grand Alliance.
This is his second innings in the last two years, after he snapped ties late on Wednesday with Grand Alliance partners Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress over corruption charges against Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
The Raj Bhavan here echoed with chants of “Nitish Kumar Zindabad” as Acting Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi administered oath to Nitish Kumar.
The BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister replacing RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Nitish Kumar again sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister for 6th time:
Dawning the mantle for the sixth time in 12 years, Nitish Kumar took the oath in Hindi.
The new alliance has two days to prove its majority in the House.
Yesterday, RJD Chief Lalu Yadav today ruled out that his son and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav will not give resignation from his post Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stepped down from him position.
Nitish has quit as Bihar’s Chief Minister post, ending the two-year-long political experiment that was branded as a game-changing Maha-gathbandhan or Grand Alliance which included his party, Lalu Yadav and the Congress.
This evening, Mr Kumar met with Bihar Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi to deliver his resignation.
