{"id":328659,"date":"2020-11-16T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328659"},"modified":"2020-11-16T08:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:44:33","slug":"rjd-to-boycott-swearing-in-ceremony-of-nitish-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rjd-to-boycott-swearing-in-ceremony-of-nitish-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"RJD to boycott swearing-in ceremony of Nitish Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327728 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tejashwi-yadav-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tejashwi-yadav-1.jpg 382w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tejashwi-yadav-1-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/>Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Bihar chief minister designate Nitish Kumar on Monday, the party announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt has been decided to boycott the oath taking ceremony, saying the mandate is against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),\u201d the RJD said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe RJD boycotts swearing-in ceremony. The mandate for change is against the NDA. The mandate has been changed with \u2018Government Order\u2019. Ask the unemployed, farmers, contract workers and teachers of Bihar what is going on with them. The public is agitated by the fraud of the NDA. We are the people\u2019s representative and stand with them,\u201d the party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar, meanwhile, will take oath as the chief minister of Bihar for the fourth straight term in Patna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) unanimously elected Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar as\u00a0the leader of its legislature party in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NDA got 125 of Bihar\u2019s 243 assembly seats. 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-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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>Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Bihar chief minister designate Nitish Kumar on Monday, the party announced. \u201cIt has been decided to boycott the oath taking ceremony, saying the mandate is against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),\u201d the RJD said. \u201cThe RJD boycotts swearing-in ceremony. The mandate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,1384,1893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328659"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328660,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328659\/revisions\/328660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}