Nitish Kumar Likely To Take Oath As Bihar CM For 9th Time Along With Two Deputies From BJP Today

BJP leader and former deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad announced that Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha will be the party's faces for the deputy CM position.

JDU Chief Nitish Kumar, and Bihar BJP's President Samrat Chaudhary.

Source : PTI

Nitish Kumar will likely take oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a record ninth time, along with BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary, Vijay Sinha as his Deputy CMs on Sunday, according to BJP sources, news agency ANI reported. 

CM Nitish Kumar and two Deputy CMs from BJP likely to take oath today: Bihar BJP Sources

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Earlier today, BJP leader and former deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad announced that Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha will be the party's faces for the deputy CM position. "Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha have been elected as leader and deputy leader of the legislative party, respectively. Most certainly, they will be our face for the deputy CM position," he told PTI.

After BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde announced that a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government will be formed in the state in alliance with the Janata Dal (United), Nitish Kumar submitted BJP's letter of support to Governor Rajendra Arlekar, which has been accepted by the Governor. 

Speaking with media, Tawde stated: “In the legislative party meeting, all MLAs unanimously passed the proposal to form the NDA government in Bihar with BJP, JD(U) and other NDA allies for the welfare of the people in the state."

After being chosen as the legislative party's leader, Samrat Chaudhary espressed gratitude towards Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "BJP did a historic thing for my life...This is an emotional moment for me to have been elected as the Leader of the Legislative Party to be a part of the government. The mandate that we received in 2020 for the development of Bihar and to end the terror of Lalu Yadav - when the BJP received the proposal from Nitish Kumar to ensure that there is no jungle raj in Bihar and Sanjay Jha came here as his ambassador, we decided to support it," he said.