NDA meeting on Sunday to pick Bihar's CM: Nitish Kumar

The National Democratic Alliance partners will meet on Sunday in Patna to decide who will be the next Chief Minister of Bihar. Breinfing the media JDU leader and CM Nitish Kumar  on Friday said that “We sat together and decided to convene a meeting of elected legislators of all the four partners on November 15 at 12.30pm. All decisions will be taken in that meeting. After the meeting and election of the NDA leader, we will stake claim to form the government,”

An NDA leader said that the election of Nitish Kumar as the leader of the alliance in Bihar was a mere formality. “Even PM Modi had endorsed his name on Wednesday,” The NDA, which consists of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular and the Vikassheel Insaan Party, has won 125 seats in the 243-member assembly with the BJP alone winning 74 seats. The JD (U), which had 71 MLAs in 2015, had to settle for 43 seats while the HAM-S and the VIP won four seats each.