Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday won the trust vote in the Bihar Assembly, with 131 of the 243 legislators voting for him. Amid protests by Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD, Kumar said that that the new alliance of JD(U) and BJP has been built on political opportunism.
Speaker Vijay Kumar Chowdhury said the Opposition got 108 votes.
Kumar had earlier moved a confidence motion in the Bihar Assembly to prove the majority of his new government.
The NDA alliance had submitted a list of 132 MLAs to the governor. These include 71 of JD(U), BJP 53, RLSP two,
