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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (Photograph: PTI)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who’s in search of re-election to the state legislative council, will file his nomination papers on Tuesday, a senior JD(U) chief mentioned.
Kumar, who heads the JD(U), shall be contesting for a fourth consecutive time period within the Higher Home, to which he first bought elected in 2006, a couple of months after turning into the chief minister.
The JD(U) president’s present time period ends in Could. Nonetheless, the Election Fee not too long ago introduced biennial polls for 11 seats of the Bihar Vidhan Parishad, together with the one held by the chief minister.
Of the 11 seats, the JD(U) held 4, the biggest quantity for any single celebration. Nonetheless, in view of its diminished tally within the meeting, the celebration is conceding two seats to ally BJP which has grown numerically stronger.
JD(U) leaders mentioned that sitting MLC Khalid Anwar was prone to be thought-about for a second consecutive time period.
HAM is helmed by former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose son Santosh Suman is a minister within the Nitish Kumar cupboard and occurs to be amongst these whose legislative council time period ends in two months.
In 2018, Suman had gained the seat with assist from the HAM’s then ally RJD.
Two of the seats, for which elections are due, had been held by the RJD’s Rabri Devi, a former chief minister and at current the chief of the opposition within the legislative council, and Ram Chandra Purve, who’s the deputy chairman of the the Higher Home.
One seat was held by Prem Chandra Mishra of Congress.
The assertion got here within the backdrop of seven MLAs of the RJD and Congress becoming a member of the BJP, which has fuelled speculations that extra could bounce ship and be part of the ruling coalition.
Submitting of nominations will come to a detailed on March 11, and the final date for the withdrawal is March 14. Voting is scheduled for March 21.
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First Revealed: Mar 04 2024 | 9:48 PM IST
