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| PM Modi Likely to get Nitish Kumar's Invite for Friday Swearing-in
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| INDIA
, 16-November-2015
3:16:37 AM |
| Nitish Kumar is sending out many invites for his oath ceremony as Bihar chief minister, to be held at 2 pm on Friday, November 20. The Bihar government is expected to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior union ministers like Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley for the event.
Mr Kumar is also inviting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul Gandhi, whose party participates in the coalition that swept the Bihar assembly elections last week. All Congress chief ministers will receive invitations as will Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee.
Both Mr Kejriwal and Ms Banerjee prominently supported Nitish Kumar against the BJP-led alliance that he vanquished. Mr Kejriwal's invitation for the oath ceremony will be hand-delivered this afternoon by KC Tyagi, a senior leader of Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United.
It was not immediately clear whether Mr Kumar would invite BJP veteran LK Advani, who has along with three other party seniors revolted against Prime Minister Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah who scripted and led the party's campaign in the crucial Bihar election.
The BJP along with its three regional allies could manage to win only 58 of Bihar's 243 seats; the Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance has won 178, an absolute majority.
On Friday, when Nitish Kumar takes oath for a third straight time as chief minister, the council of ministers that is sworn in with him is expected to have more members from partner Lalu Yadav's RJD than his own JDU. Lalu's party is the single largest in the new assembly, with 80 seats.
Once bitter rivals, Nitish and Lalu came together to stall the BJP which had won 32 of the state's 40 Lok Sabha seats in the national election last year along with its regional allies. That was months after Nitish Kumar dumped the BJP, an ally of 17 years, after it became clear that it would be projecting his arch political rival Mr Modi for Prime Minister.
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