Senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Wednesday said that there is no question of replacing Nitish Kumar as Bihar chief minister. Modi made the statement a day after the BJP finished ahead of Nitish’s JD(U) in the Bihar Assembly poll for the first time.
“Nitishji will remain Chief Minister as it was our commitment. There is no confusion on this,” the BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi and Deputy Chief Minister said today.
After more than 14 hours of counting, many twists and turns, and allegations of cheating, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was announced as the winner of the Bihar Assembly election in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The NDA eased past the majority mark of 122 in the 243-member Assembly. The BJP won 74 seats to emerge as the senior member in its alliance with Nitish Kumar’s JDU, which won just 43. According to data on the Election Commission’s website, the BJP won 72 seats to emerge as the senior member in its alliance with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU, which managed just 42.
Of the 243 seats, 125 have gone in favour of the ruling coalition headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and 110 to rival Grand Alliance. The RJD emerged as the single-largest party in the House with 75 seats.
AIMIM secured five seats in the Seemanchal region having a large Muslim population. Its Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF) ally, the BSP, has pocketed one seat. Chirag Paswan’s LJP, which had walked out of the NDA just ahead of the polls and decided to contest the election independently, finally opened its account, winning just one seat. An Independent candidate also won.
The CPI and CPI (Marxist) won two seats each, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) 12 seats, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) four, Congress 19, and Vikassheel Insaan Party four. Other parties have won the remaining 2 seats.
