{"id":328631,"date":"2020-11-15T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328631"},"modified":"2020-11-15T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:55:40","slug":"bihar-nitish-kumar-elected-as-leader-of-nda-legislature-party-set-to-become-bihar-cm-for-4th-straight-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-nitish-kumar-elected-as-leader-of-nda-legislature-party-set-to-become-bihar-cm-for-4th-straight-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: Nitish Kumar elected as leader of NDA legislature party, set to become CM for 4th straight term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/nitish-kumar-elected-nda-leader-set-to-become-bihar-cm-for-4th-straight-term\/bihar-nitish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328632\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish-544x420.jpg 544w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/bihar-nitish.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a>The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unanimously elected Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar as\u00a0the leader of its legislature party in Bihar on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The formal announcement came after a meeting which was attended by senior NDA leaders in Patna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Nitish Kumar is likely to take oath on November 16 at Governor&#8217;s House in Patna. This will be the Nitish&#8217;s fourth straight term as the Chief Minister of Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">NDA got 125 of Bihar&#8217;s 243 assembly seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The BJP won 74 seats while JD(U) won 43 in recently concluded assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The top leadership of the BJP, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has emphatically endorsed Nitish Kumar as the next chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The RJD, led by Tejashwi Yadav, emerged as the single-largest party with 75 seats. The opposition alliance won 110 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unanimously elected Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar as\u00a0the leader of its legislature party in Bihar on Sunday.\u00a0 The formal announcement came after a meeting which was attended by senior NDA leaders in Patna. Nitish Kumar is likely to take oath on November 16 at Governor&#8217;s House in Patna. This will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,895,2684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328639,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328631\/revisions\/328639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}