Shahnawaz Hussain’s Return To Bihar Is BJP’s Big Investment For Next Polls
With a sizable population of minority voters, BJP hopes to make inroads in Bengal by making Hussain a minister in the adjoining state. PTI Giridhar Jha 2021-02-09T12:58:06+05:30 Shahnawaz Hussain’s Return To Bihar Is BJP’s Big Investment For Next Polls outlookindia.com 2021-02-09T14:48:52+05:30
Ahead of the all-important assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party has rehabilitated one of its most well-known Muslim leaders, Syed Shanawaz Hussain by inducting him in the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, but the party is eyeing wider gains beyond the upcoming polls in the Mamata Banerjee-ruled state.
Bihar: Opposition to organise human chain in solidarity with farmers protests, says Tejashwi Yadav
RJD s Tejashwi Yadav
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Patna: The opposition parties in Bihar will form a statewide human chain on Saturday in support of the demands of the farmers for repeal of the three controversial agricultural legislations.
Leader of opposition in Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who presided over a meeting of the leaders of opposition parties including Congress, CPI, the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML), said that the proposed human chain would be formed in Patna as well. He hoped that farmers of the state would join in on the human chain.
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Younger Leaders to Rein in Nitish Kumar, Battle Over Portfolios: BJP s Gameplan Delays Cabinet Expansion
The ongoing shake-up in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to rid the party of the old guards close to Nitish Kumar and shift the baton of state leadership to the next generation seems to have come in the way of cabinet expansion in Bihar.
It is little over a month that Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as the chief minister but the cabinet expansion exercise has not yet been completed causing heartburn among the ruling alliance legislators.
Despite having 74 MLAs in its kitty, the BJP kept its promise and made Kumar the chief minister with 14 ministers, including two deputy chief ministers. As per the existing rule, a maximum of 36 ministers, including the chief minister, can be appointed in the 243-member Bihar assembly.
Sushil in Rajya Sabha, veterans on panels, BJP may induct young leaders in Bihar Cabinet
According to BJP sources, Nitish Mishra, Nitin Navin, Sanjeev Chourasia and Samrat Choudhary are among the younger crop of leaders who could get a seat in the next Cabinet expansion. Updated: December 16, 2020 8:21:56 am
The party said some its workers were injured in the attack.(File photo)
BJP has signalled a transfer of power to the younger generation of leaders in the expansion of the Nitish Kumar-led Cabinet likely only after January 14 with Makar Sankranti marking the end of the “inauspicious” month of Kharmas as the party has accommodated four senior leaders in Vidhan Sabha committees.