Guwahati: Nitish Kumar has taken the oath as the new chief minister of Bihar for the eighth time, breaking his own record after a rupture with the BJP alliance in the state. The JD(U) and BJP partnership was broken up by him a day earlier due to an internal disagreement.
Tejashwi Yadav, an RJD leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son, has sworn in as Bihar’s deputy chief minister for the second time, resuming the position he had held for almost seven years.
Seven years after Tejashwi Yadav was charged with corruption and Nitish Kumar opted to resign as a result, the duo of CM and Deputy CM in Bihar is back together.
A day after Kumar severed relations with the BJP-led NDA and teamed up with the RJD to form a “Mahagathbandhan” government, the low-key event was held.
Earlier, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) has accused the BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of attempting to undermine the Bihar chief minister from his position of authority in order to create a situation such to Maharashtra in Bihar.
Meanwhile, the BJP remained unsatisfied and referred to Nitish Kumar as “Paltu Ram,” a moniker that Lalu Prasad Yadav, the leader of the RJD, invented years ago as a result of JDU’s request for support from the RJD.