In the 243-member House, where Nitish Kumar has support of 164 MLAs, the floor test was merely a formality.
Patna: The new Mahagathbandhan government of Bihar led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar won the trust vote in the state Assembly on Wednesday amid a walkout by the BJP in protest.
In the 243-member House, where Nitish Kumar has support of 164 MLAs, the floor test was merely a formality. Kumar got 160 votes. While delivering a speech during the debate on the motion of confidence, RJD chief and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said, “This is a never-ending innings (Mahagathbandhan) will be historic. Our alliance will be long and no one will get run out.”
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During the debate, former Deputy Chief Minister Tarakishore Prasad said Nitish Kumar has lost political credibility. He mocked Kumar’s “personal ambition to become the prime minister despite not having the ability to become the chief minister on his own steam”.
Hours before the floor test, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted raids at an under-construction mall belonging to Tejashwi Yadav in Gurugram and properties belonging to the other party leaders in Patna in connection with the ‘land-for-jobs’ scam.
In the Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav slammed the BJP and said, “Do you want to say all properties in the country belongs to Tejaswi Yadav? The person who brought the railways into profit is facing cases and those who are selling the railways and the country, nothing will happen to them.”
According to the reports, several teams of CBI reached at homes of RJD leaders early morning in which Rajya Sabha MPs Ahmad Ashfaque Karim and Dr Faiyaz Ahmad and a Member of Legislative Council (MLC) in Bihar Sunil Singh are included. The CBI has been probing allegations of irregularities during the tenure of Lalu Prasad Yadav as Railway Minister in Manmohan Singh government.
