Bihar Floor Test Today Live Updates: The Assembly session began on Monday with Nitish Kumar’s government in Bihar all set to face a trust vote, two weeks after he jumped allegiance from the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) — a JD(U), RJD and Congress alliance — to the NDA bloc. As per the Assembly schedule, Governor R V Arlekar will address both Houses of the legislature, followed by the Assembly taking up the no-confidence motion against Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary.
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In lead up to the test on Monday, the Congress flew its MLAs to Hyderabad last week amid concerns of ‘poaching’, while RJD’s MLAs decided to stay together in Tejashwi Yadav’s house, and BJP leader Nityanand Rai claimed all 78 MLAs of the saffron party were at a hotel in Patna. The JD(U) of Nitish Kumar also got 40 of its MLAs to stay at another hotel in the state capital.
How do the number stack up? As of now, the NDA government led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar looks confident of winning the trust vote. In a 243-member Bihar Assembly, the magic number for a majority is 122. The NDA government claims to have a majority, with 128 members supporting the BJP-JD(U) alliance, while the strength of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ has been reduced to 114.
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