Winter Session of Bihar Assembly set to be stormy
Meanwhile, the ruling NDA coalition, buoyed by their recent victory in all four seats during the Assembly bye-elections, is enthusiastic about defending their position.
After a long wait, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on late Sunday night finally named its Jharkhand unit president — Khiru Mahto, for the Rajya Sabha elections.
The party has denied the ticket to Union Steel Minister RCP Singh — considered a BJP sympathiser in the JD-U.
Hence, he was on the “target list” of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and other party leaders like national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh a.k.a. Lalan Singh, JD-U parliamentary board president Upendra Kushwaha and party’s state president Umesh Kushwaha.
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“We have selected Khiru Mahto as Rajya Sabha candidate of JD-U from Bihar,” Lalan Singh said.
“It was a unanimous choice to select Khiru Mahto. The actual idea is to strengthen the position of our chief minister, Nitish Kumar,” he added.
According to sources, Nitish Kumar had already decided not to name RCP Singh.
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