Samrat Choudhary takes oath as Bihar CM, first BJP leader to hold post
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Samrat Choudhary on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of Bihar, replacing Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar.
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Choudhary is the first BJP chief minister of Bihar.
Kumar, Bihar’s longest-serving chief minister, resigned from his post on Tuesday. He was the chief minister for nearly two decades in all, having taken oath for the post ten times.
Soon after Kumar resigned on Tuesday, the BJP elected Choudhary, who was the deputy chief minister in the government led by the JD(U) chief, as its legislative party leader. Later in the day, he was also elected the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in the state.
Kumar’s resignation came after he was elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16 for the first time. He was sworn in as a Rajya Sabha MP on Friday.
In the Bihar elections held in November, the JD(U) had won 85 seats, almost doubling its tally of 43 seats from the 2020 polls. However, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 89 of the 101 constituencies it contested.
Kumar, while announcing his candidature for the Rajya Sabha elections on March 5, had said that he had desired to serve in all four legislative roles at the state and central level – a member of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative...