Bihar floor test highlights: CM Nitish Kumar wins trust motion by securing 160 votes in favour of 'Mahagathbandhan' govt

Bihar assembly deputy speaker Maheshwar Hazari said on Wednesday that the election for Bihar Assembly Speaker will take place on 26th August.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government wins trust motion by securing 160 votes against zero in its favour.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar lambasted the BJP in state assembly on Wednesday, saying the party does not do any productive work and only does publicity. He also stated that the BJP is escaping the current situation in Bihar because the top brass of the party from Delhi must have told them to do so as they know they have no support in the eastern state.

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Nitish Kumar on Wednesday slammed the BJP leaders present at state assembly, saying that even before the 2020 polls, his party JD(U) won more seats than BJP. “Don't just talk about 2020 assembly polls,” he said.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar speaks at state assembly. Prior to him, the only AIMIM MLA Akhtarul Iman spoke in favour of the trust vote.

Calling his party RJD's partnership with chief minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav said the duo are cricketers and their parties is “going to have a never-ending partnership”.

“This is going to be the longest inning, this partnership will be working for the development of Bihar and the country. No one is getting run out this time,” he added.

Refuting media reports that the mall in Gurugram, Haryana, raided by the CBI earlier in the day belonged to him, Tejashwi Yadav said it is interesting that the venue's construction began in the presence of a BJP leader. The Bihar deputy CM also said that the saffron unit is scared the RJD-JD(U)-led Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance government would wipe out the BJP in the coming 2024 parliamentary polls from Bihar.

Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav said that when the BJP is scared or loses in a state, “it puts ahead its three 'jamai', CBI, ED and IT,” ANI reported. 

“When I go to foreign countries, BJP issues lookout notices against me & when fraudsters like Nirav Modi run away, they don't do anything,” he added.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was on Wednesday accused by his former deputy and BJP leader Tarkishore Prasad of having lost “political credibility”, news agency PTI reported. Prasad mocked Kumar's “personal ambition to become the prime minister" to ditch the saffron camp. The BJP leader made the remark while participating in a debate on the motion of confidence brought by the new Mahagathbandhan government in the eastern state.

“He remains the CM though his deputy keeps changing. He is like a batsman who causes others to get run out to remain on the pitch. RJD should remember that its president Lalu Prasad had compared him to a snake that sheds its skin,” Prasad was quoted as saying by PTI.

Floor test to prove the majority of Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government commences in Bihar legislative assembly, reports ANI.

JD(U)'s Narendra Narayan Yadav, whose name was recommended by VK Sinha after he quit as assembly speaker, will chair the floor test now.

The proceedings of the House have been adjourned till 2 pm. According to the rules, after the resignation of the Speaker, all the work of the Assembly will be handled by the Deputy Speaker: Maheshwar Hazari, Deputy Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

RJD spokesman Shakti Singh Yadav said, "I am hardly surprised. I had, in a tweet last night itself, had spoken of ED, CBI and IT planning their next operation in Bihar."

BJP OBC Morcha national general secretary and state spokesman Nikhil Anand alleged in a statement, "Nitish Kumar is using the deputy speaker, a Dalit, to get abuses hurled at the Speaker. In the process, the CM wants Dalits to get a bad name."

The 'Mahagathbandhan', which comprises Bihar chief minister's JD(U), besides RJD, Congress, CPI(ML), CPI and CPI(M), has a combined strength of more than 160 in the 243-strong House.

This May, the CBI had filed an FIR in the "land for railway job" case and named Lalu Yadav, his wife and daughters among several others as accused in the case. CBI conducted searches at 17 locations belonging to Lalu Yadav and his family members in Delhi and Bihar in May.

Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the chief minister for a record eighth time after the JDU teamed up with the RJD and Congress to form the government.

CBI raids going on at total 25 locations in Delhi, Gurugram, Patna, Katihar and Madhubani including an under construction mall in Gurugram owned by Tejashwi Yadav. This mall is being constructed from the proceeds of crime from land-for-jobs scam in railways, in which a case was registered in May this year.

Ex-Bihar CM & RJD leader Rabri Devi says, "They're scared. A new Govt has been formed under leadership of Nitish Kumar. All parties, except BJP, with us. We've the majority. CBI (raid) just to scare us. We won't be scared. This isn't happening for the first time."

RJD spokesman Shakti Singh Yadav said, "I am hardly surprised. I had, in a tweet last night itself, had spoken of ED, CBI and IT planning their next operation in Bihar."

BJP's Vijay Kumar Sinha resigns as Speaker of the Bihar Assembly, JD(U)'s Narendra Narayan Yadav to chair floor test.

“The Chair is 'Panch Parmeshwar'. What message do you want to give by casting suspicions on the Chair? People will make a decision,” Bihar Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, in the House as he speaks on the No Confidence Motion against him. “I would like to tell you that your No Confidence Motion (against him - the Speaker) is unclear. Eight of the nine people's letters, which were received, were not as per rule,” says Bihar Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, in the House.

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Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari said that with a change of guard, these officials may end up being probed by the very agencies in which they are holding posts.