No Question of Going Anywhere else Now, Says Nitish In 1st Remark After Taking Oath For 9th Bihar CM – News18

Amidst a political turmoil in Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the ninth time on Sunday after a political turmoil in the state. The CM’s JD(U) joined the NDA Alliance after exiting the Mahagathbandhan with the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

After the oath ceremony, Kumar told media that, “I came back to where I was (NDA) and now there is no question of going anywhere else.”

The chief minister’s switch comes as a big blow to the RJD as the party gets kicked overnight out of power. Meanwhile, former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said that the game is still on in Bihar. He also said that the quality of education and health has improved a lot under RJD and the people of the state are with them.

Dismissing Tejashwi’s statements, Nitish Kumar said JD(U) will continue to work for the development and the progress of Bihar.

Here are the Top developments amidst the Bihar Political Turmoil:

• Nitish Kumar took oath as the chief minister of Bihar on Sunday. BJP’s Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha were appointed as the deputy chief ministers.
• Following the oath. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Nitish Kumar on taking the oath, In a post on X, he said that the NDA government will leave no stone unturned for the development in Bihar.
• RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, in his first public reaction after the oath, he said thatvthe game is not over in Bihar and that the public is with the RJD.
• BJP president JP Nadda said Nitish Kumar’s coming back to the NDA fold is a matter of happiness. The people of Bihar in 2020 gave the mandate to the NDA and Nitish Kumar is NDA’s natural ally, Nadda said adding that the NDA will sweep Lok Sabha polls in Bihar.
• As per a Hindustan Times report, DMK tore into Nitish Kumar and said the party tolerated Nitish Kumar’s ‘only Hindi to be spoken’ push for the sake of cordiality in INDIA alliance. “He (Nitish Kumar) said everyone should talk in Hindi. We tolerated it. Even then, we kept quiet, as a compromise, for the sake of cordiality in the alliance. It was said that English must not be spoken. This is an ordinary matter (hinting at politics). It is okay,” DMK MP TR Baalu said.
• On Nitish’s exit, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the dissolution of the INDIA bloc is now certain.
• Akhilesh said Nitish Kumar’s switch is BJP’s desperation ahead of the Lok Sabha election. It is a conspiracy to limit a could-be PM to the CM’s chair, Akhilesh said. Earlier too Akhilesh made a similar comment as he said Nitish Kumar could have become the PM face of the INDIA bloc but he lost the chance by deserting it.On the same turmoil,AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi said the same Nitish Kumar who called Owaisi the B-team of the BJP has flipped and betrayed the people of the state, the HT report quoted.”It is not surprising that he has done this ‘Volte – Face’ once again because he seems to be addicted to this kind of behaviour,” NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto said in a statement.

  Congress said Nitish Kumar’s switch on Sunday proved that it was all pre-planned and he kept the INDIA bloc, the RJD leadership in the dark.