Patna: It is a big day for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as his party will move a trust vote in the state legislature in what is being seens as a litmus after the BJP-JD(U) split. The voting is expected to take place around 2 in the afternoon and Nitish Kumar seems confident of proving his majority.
JD(U) leaders said Nitish Kumar was "calm and cool" and spent the day in office on Tuesday, not worried about the trust vote in the 243-seat legislature. "Nitish Kumar was busy as usual in office work. He was not at all tense," an official in the chief minister's office said.
JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said that Wednesday's trust vote would be smooth sailing for Nitish Kumar. The JD(U) has 118 legislators, but it needs 122 votes to win the confidence of the House. Four independent legislators have reportedly pledged support to the JD(U). "After four of the six independent legislators announced their support to Nitish Kumar, the sole LJP legislator, Zakir Hussain Khan, has also announced his support to the government," Neeraj Kumar said.
"We have the magic number of 122 including 118 JD-U legislators, four independents and one LJP legislator," he added. The independents supporting Nitish Kumar are Pawan Kumar Jaiswal, Som Prakash Singh, Vinay Bihari and Dulal Chandra Goswami....
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03:44 PM, Jun 18, 2013
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10:20 AM, Jun 18, 2013
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11:58 PM, Jun 17, 2013
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07:37 PM, Jun 17, 2013
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11:45 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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11:29 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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10:19 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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10:06 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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09:03 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also said that the Third Front has never been successful. ...
08:47 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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08:35 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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08:23 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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07:59 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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07:26 PM, Jun 16, 2013
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