{"id":274065,"date":"2025-11-20T00:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=274065"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:42:47","slug":"nitish-kumar-elected-as-leader-of-nda-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/nitish-kumar-elected-as-leader-of-nda-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar elected as leader of NDA in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PATNA, 19 Nov:<\/strong> JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar was chosen leader of the NDA in Bihar during a meeting of newly elected MLAs of the alliance partners here on Wednesday, state minister Shrawon Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar will take oath as the chief minister for a record 10th time at Patna&#8217;s historic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposal for the leader of NDA was moved by JD(U)&#8217;s Vijay Choudhary and seconded by BJP leaders Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha. MLAs of the LJP(RV), HAM and RLM also seconded the proposal, Shrawon Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, Kumar was elected as leader of the JD (U)&#8217;s legislature party by the newly elected MLAs of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDA stormed back to power in Bihar, winning 202 seats in the 243-member assembly, with BJP bagging 89, JD(U) 85, LJP(RV) 19, HAM 5 and RLM 4. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATNA, 19 Nov: JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar was chosen leader of the NDA in Bihar during a meeting of newly elected MLAs of the alliance partners here on Wednesday, state minister Shrawon Kumar said. Kumar will take oath as the chief minister for a record 10th time at Patna&#8217;s historic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}