Patna

LJP president Chirag Paswan, whose Lok Janshakti Party had walked out of the NDA in Bihar vowing to oust Nitish Kumar from power in the state, also congratulated the BJP on "making" him the chief minister.

Speculations were rife over the post with senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who was in the state to oversee the party's postelection activities, and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar keeping off from the issue when asked by the press.

Nitish Kumar, who was invited by Governor Phagu Chauhan to form the government, said that the list of ministers will be decided by late Sunday evening or early Monday.

Yadav, elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, defeated his nearest JD(U) rival Raj Kumar Rai.

Kusheshwar Sthan is a remote constituency, badly battered by floods every year. The place is flood-affected for 5 to 6 months every year. The flood situation in Bihar is also one of the poll issues for the opposition Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) in th...

Sanjay Kumar Jha, JD(U) national general secretary and a key aide of the chief minister, said he will be addressing people in a total of 35 assembly constituencies over the next couple of days.

LJP helmed by Chirag Paswan, has often been critical of the Nitish Kumar government over a variety of issues.

The incident took place on Sunday when Yadav was in his constituency as a "chief guest" at a village-level cricket tournament.

The party celebrated its foundation day in the absence of its charismatic founding president for the third consecutive year, as Yadav has been away in Ranchi serving sentences in a number of cases related to the scam.

The prime minister then followed up his speech with a flurry of tweets in languages spoken across the country, with two of them in Bhojpuri, which is commonly spoken in Bihar.

With assembly elections in Bihar only months away, the main opposition party seems to be building a case against the ruling dispensation by criticising its response to the coronavirus outbreak and migrant workers issue.

The notice, issued by Chaudhary's advocate Kumar Shanu, seeks immediate deletion of all such social media posts by the RJD leader and unconditional apology by Tejashwi Yadav on Facebook, Twitter and "in three leading newspapers in Bihar".

A total of 2.14 lakh condoms were distributed among people in quarantine centres across the state in April while the figure spiked to 15.39 lakh in May, he said in a statement.

On Friday, a crowd attacked Basak's house and indulged in vandalism demanding that the accused be immediately handed over to the police.

Paswan said the Bihar government's handling of the migrant crisis, triggered by the nationwide lockdown to curb COVID-19, "could have been better" and counted law and order as a concern, saying serious crimes like murder and robbery have been rising.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Bihar to attend the centenary celebrations of the Patna University and launch several development projects worth over Rs 3,700 crore.