Bihar: After bagging home department, BJP gets speaker’s post

PATNA: BJP’s Prem Kumar, who won the Gaya Town assembly spot for a grounds ninth clip successful the caller Bihar elections, was unanimously elected assembly talker connected Tuesday, succeeding his enactment workfellow Nand Kishore Yadav.Kumar, 70, was the lone 1 who had filed a information for the post. Slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Jai Shri Ram” were raised successful the House soon aft helium was declared “unanimously elected” by dependable vote.Having bagged the speaker’s station conscionable days aft securing the cardinal location portfolio, held by CM Nitish Kumar for astir 20 years, BJP has further tightened its grip implicit the NDA govt successful Bihar.The speaker’s relation has go progressively important successful the state, which has witnessed repeated changes successful govts implicit the past 8 years owing to unpredictable shifts successful governmental alliances.JDU curate Vijay Kumar Choudhary, however, dismissed the proposition that the enactment had been stripped of the speaker’s post. “When did we person the station that we mislaid it?” Choudhary, said to reporters. JDU held the station from Nov 2005 to Nov 2020, with Choudhary himself serving 1 term.